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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the children say Aunt Josephine has a chance?

2. What does Violet realize the message in Aunt Josephine's letter means?

3. What do the Baudelaire children say they will have while at the restaurant?

4. What does Count Olaf's accomplice step on that causes it to fall?

5. What do Klaus and Violet tell Mr. Poe that they have to go do?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the Baudelaires' journey to the Fickle Ferry in Chapter 9.

2. Describe the scene in Chapter 11 when the Leeches arrive.

3. Describe the scene in which the children look in the window of Captain Sham's sailboat rentals.

4. How does the creature stop the Baudelaire children after it wakes up?

5. What do the children realize after the storm has passed and they are on the lake?

6. Describe the scene at the end of Chapter 12 where the Baudelaire children, Captain Sham, and Mr. Poe are having their argument.

7. What is the realization that the children come to after talking with Aunt Josephine in the cave in Chapter 10?

8. Describe the scene when the Baudelaire children first arrive back at Josephine's house in the beginning of Chapter 8.

9. What does Captain Sham say to the children when they get into his boat?

10. What does Captain Sham tell Mr. Poe about him and Josephine in chapter seven while they are eating at the restauarant?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the creature that was Count Olaf's accomplice.

1) Why did this creature never speak?

2) Why aren't the accomplices given names?

3) What does it say about Count Olaf that he has such loyal accomplices for his foul endeavors?

Essay Topic 2

Explain Josephine's personality.

1) Did she give any indication that she truly cared for the children? If so what?

2) Did she give the children over because of her fear or because she was selfish? explain.

Essay Topic 3

1) What plots or events are left unanswered in this story and left to the next books in the series?

2) How would it have changed the book if the events had come to a close at the end of this story?

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