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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 Sunny abandon her post at the tiller to do?

2. What costume is the waiter wearing at the restaurant?

3. What does Violet say she is trying to create?

4. Since its hands are full with Sunny and Violet what does the accomplice use to stop Klaus?

5. What does Josephine say that Count Olaf told her he would do if she didn't give the children over to his care?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What does Josephine's library look like when Klaus enters in Chapter 8?

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

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

9. Describe how the children sail the boat in Chapter 10.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Look at the characteristics of the three Baudelaire children.

1) What are the differences between them? What are the similarities?

2) Did the children forgive Josephine for her actions? What makes you think so?

3) Why did or didn't the children forgive her?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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