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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 the Baudelaire children say they will have while at the restaurant?

2. What do the leeches do when they become frustrated?

3. Where does Captain Sham say that he and Josephine had met while he is telling Mr. Poe the story?

4. What does Violet say she thinks that she and her siblings should do?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What is the realization that the children come to after talking with Aunt Josephine in the cave in Chapter 10?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

The author gives the reader many instances of foreshadowing in the story.

1) Give examples of foreshadowing that happen in the book and what it accomplishes.

2) Why does the author choose to reveal these pieces of information?

3) What other way could the author have given the information?

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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