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

2. What does Captain Sham say the Baudelaire children will be in just a few short hours

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

4. Why does Captain Sham no one will believe Josephine?

5. What does Violet do to help her hives?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Josephine tell the children had happened to her when she decided to run away?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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