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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 the narrator say that Count Olaf's accomplice held Sunny up like?

2. What does the narrator say the library room shook like?

3. What color light do the children see at dark?

4. What does Josephine say she knew the children were?

5. When does Mr. Poe say he doesn't drink?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Aunt Josephine say when Captain Sham say he is going to thrown her overboard?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1) The children are supposed to be the good characters in the story but they often have actions that are not positive. They lie, such as when Violet is on the phone and says it is wrong number, and they steal such as when the children take the sail boat.

2) Does this change the way the reader views these main characters? Explain why or why not?

Does this influence your view on the level of appropriateness for younger audiences? Why?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

There are a lot of dire situations in the story and it appears that Josephine dies after abandoning the children.

1) Is this book appropriate for younger audiences? Why or why not?

2) Did the death of Josephine influence your decision in any way?

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