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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 does Klaus laugh about realizing as they are walking to the administration building?
(a) They will have to buy Nero candy
(b) They will have to have their hands tied behind their backs
(c) Count Olaf's turban makes him look like a woman
(d) They will have to eat their meals with their hands

2. What is the only thing the Baudelaire children can count on from Mr. Poe?
(a) That he will complicate matters
(b) That he will be coughing
(c) That he will repremand the children for being rude
(d) That he should be a jar of mustard

3. What does Klaus remember doing on the picnic?
(a) Looking for arrowheads
(b) Swinging from a low limb
(c) Picking blackberries
(d) Catching turtles

4. What does Klaus say would happen if they could get the turban off of Coach Genghis?
(a) They could play keep away with it
(b) His head would catch a cold
(c) They could make curtains out of it
(d) His one eyebrow would be revealed

5. Who baked the biggest lasagna that Violet and Klaus ever saw?
(a) Circus performers
(b) A women's bridge club
(c) A girl scout troup
(d) Eleven nuns

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Carmelita tell the children it is traditional to give a special messenger?

2. To tell the size what is it that the Biggest Lasagna Contest winner was compared to?

3. What happened to the old gym teacher and required them to find a replacement?

4. What does Coach Genghis say has never happened despite the fact that he is the world's greatest gym teacher?

5. What is the punishment for being late for work or class?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Coach Genghis and Principal Nero talk about on the way to the auditorium?

2. Explain the narrator's discussion about triptychs and the one he has and the one he would make to signify the Baudelaire children.

3. Describe Violet's class in room one with Mr. Remora.

4. 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.

5. What happens when Sunny runs out of staples?

6. What does Nero tell the children while describing the shack they will be living in?

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

8. What do the children do when Coach Genghis walks into the office and says that he might really be Count Olaf in disguise?

9. How does the narrator describe the words 'hee hee hee' to the reader as the Baudelaire children hear them in the end of Chapter 2?

10. What does the narrator say about the school motto and the effect that it has as the children walk into the school at the end of Chapter 1?

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