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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the reason that Coach Genghis is wearing high top sneakers?
(a) To keep the marks left by Klaus hidden
(b) To conceal his eye tattoo on his ankle
(c) To hide a scar left on him by Sunny's bitting
(d) Because his ankles are weak

2. In class what does Carmelita whisper in Violet's ear when she pokes her and causes Violet to loose her concentration?
(a) Orphan
(b) Vile Violet
(c) Cakesniffer
(d) Stinky Winky

3. Who walks into the shack surprising the children?
(a) Mr. Poe
(b) Mr. Remora
(c) Mrs. Bass
(d) Principal Nero

4. What does Sunny tell her siblings to be on the lookout for?
(a) Count Olaf's lawyer
(b) Count Olaf sneaking around
(c) Count Olaf's knife
(d) Count Olaf's assistants

5. What does Violet say she can invent?
(a) Something to kill off the fungus
(b) Something soft to sleep on
(c) Something to keep the crabs away
(d) A way to paint the walls

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say that Mrs. Bass was arrested for?

2. What does Principal Nero say Sunny will be doing at Prufrock Prep?

3. What does Klaus say would happen if they could get the turban off of Coach Genghis?

4. What is the only thing the Baudelaire children can count on from Mr. Poe?

5. What is coming out from between the brick sidewalk the Baudelaire children are standing on?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the Quagmire children tell the Baudelaire children that they will do in regards to Count Olaf in Chapter 5?

2. What is the explanation that the narrator gives the expression "Mountain out of a Molehill" in Chapter 3?

3. Describe the scene in Principal Nero's office where the children are trying to act like they are joking about Coach Genghis' outfit being a disguise.

4. What does the narrator say about the current state of the school and what happened to it after the Baudelaire children left?

5. Why does Klaus not accuse Coach Genghis of being Count Olaf when Coach Genghis enters in Chapter 6?

6. What is the description of the Prufrock Prep that is given in Chapter 1 as the children and Mr. Poe look up at it?

7. What background information is given to the reader in Chapter 1 regarding the relationship and past events between the Baudelaire children and Count Olaf?

8. What do the children explain to Principal Nero is the reason that they have come to see him?

9. After having discussed Olaf and their plans to unmask him in Chapter 5 what do the children talk about?

10. What does Nero tell the children in Chapter 2 about the dormitory that they have at Prufrock Prep?

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