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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 did the children have to eat with their hands when they went on a picnic with their parents and forgot the silverware?
(a) Egg salad
(b) Pudding
(c) Mashed potatoes
(d) Sweet-and-sour shrimp

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

3. What is Principal Nero's tie decorated with?
(a) Snails
(b) Violins
(c) Cats
(d) Stripes

4. What does Coach Genghis give to Nero?
(a) A rose
(b) A picture of himself
(c) A new bow for his violin
(d) A boquet

5. What did Sunny do on the picnic at the lake with their parents?
(a) Found a tree to sleep under
(b) Bite rocks
(c) Looked at bugs
(d) Went swiming

Short Answer Questions

1. What instrument do the children hear when they are standing outside Nero's office?

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

3. What is the punishment for being late for meals?

4. What does Duncan tell Violet is the good news?

5. What do the children find the shack is infested with?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the Quagmire and Baudelaire children talk about doing when they grow up in Chapter 4?

2. Describe what Violet is thinking about in Chapter 1 as they are walking towards the school for the first time.

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

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

5. What causes the children to lose their appetites in Chapter 6?

6. What is said about the picnic the children went on with their parents as they recall it in Chapter 6?

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

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. Describe the story of Violet and Klaus going to the fair when their uncle entered a pig into the contest.

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

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