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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 Count Olaf's accomplice pick Violet up by?

2. What does Sunny do while her siblings are trying to convince Mr. Poe that Aunt Josephine may still be alive?

3. What does Mr. Poe say that Captain Sham will have to do before the children will be put into his care?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What happens in Chapter 8 just after the children have found the atlas to tell them where Aunt Josephine is hiding?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Why does Mr. Poe stand on the dock screaming at Count Olaf to stop rather than taking action of some type? What does this represent for the Baudelaire children?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the creature that was Count Olaf's accomplice.

1) Why did this creature never speak?

2) Why aren't the accomplices given names?

3) What does it say about Count Olaf that he has such loyal accomplices for his foul endeavors?

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