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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 Aunt Josephine NOT tell Captain Sham?

2. What did the children do when a car passed them as they made their way to the Fickle Ferry?

3. Which of the Baudelaire children goes in after the keys to the sailboat?

4. What is happening when the Baudelaires leave the restaurant?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does the narrator explain when Violet says they are going to steal a sailboat?

6. Describe how Aunt Josephine acts when the children first get her into the boat in Chapter 11?

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

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

9. Describe the invention that Violet makes in Chapter 11 and what it does.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

1) What is the difference between the adults in the story and the children?

2) Does the difference between the adults and the children make it easier for children to relate to? Explain.

3) Why were the adults unable to see through Count Olaf's disguise?

Essay Topic 3

Mr. Poe lists off several things that Count Olaf is charged with, including murder.

1) Why does Count Olaf interrupt Mr. Poe to add arson to the charges?

2) What is conveyed to the reader in this act?

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