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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. What does Violet decide they must do in order to get to Aunt Josephine?

2. What does Klaus continue to do while they sail across the lake?

3. What does Count Olaf's accomplice pick Violet up by?

4. What does Captain Sham say he thought had happened to the children?

5. What does Klaus tell Josephine will be coming to the Cave that frightens her enough to make her agree to leave?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Violet do under the table while they are eating at the restaurant?

3. What happens to the Baudelaire children when the eat the peppermints?

4. In the end of Chapter 11 what does the author mean by the phrase 'mixed blessing'?

5. What does Klaus do in Chapter 8 when he enters the library room?

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 do the children think about when Josephine is thrown overboard and they sail away from her.

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

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

10. What does Larry the waiter offer the children to eat?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Look at the motivators for Count Olaf.

1) Does his motivation seem to come more from a desire for money, power, or some other theme? Explain your answer and give examples.

2) How could these motivators be used as a good characteristic rather than a bad?

Essay Topic 2

1) What lesson or moral did the children learn from Aunt Josephine? Explain your answer.

2) Was this lesson or moral given in a positive way or negative?

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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