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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. Why does Duncan say that Count Olaf didn't ask the Baudelaire children for their fortune?
(a) He wants to have the children off school property
(b) He is waiting until the children are too exhausted to refuse
(c) He was to busy listening to Nero's sonata
(d) He forgot

2. What meal do the Baudelaire children have to eat with their hands at lunch?
(a) Tuna cassarole
(b) Lasagna
(c) Spaghetti
(d) Taco salad

3. What does Principal Nero say about Carmelita Spats?
(a) Her daddy has a lot of money
(b) He doesn't know who Carmelita Spats is
(c) She is Coach Genghis' special messenger
(d) Carmelita is his favorite student

4. In the beginning of Chapter 9 what do the children know about Coach Genghis' plan?
(a) Zero
(b) A little more than they did
(c) That he is going to enter them in the olympics
(d) That he is getting them in shape for something sinister

5. What does Violet NOT take from the kitchen to make her invention?
(a) Plate
(b) Fork
(c) Creamed spinich
(d) Small potato

Short Answer Questions

1. What color is the cover on the book that Mrs. Bass asks about the measurements on?

2. What is Mr. Remora's first question about to Violet?

3. What is Mrs. Bass having Klaus do in class?

4. Who do the teachers say they should expel?

5. Why do the children not invent, think, or bite anything?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the topic of assumptions that the narrator speaks on in the beginning of Chapter 12.

2. Why do Klaus and Sunny not question Violet in Chapter 11 when she tells them she will need a crab for her invention?

3. Describe how the day goes while the Baudelaire children are waiting for their meeting with Coach Genghis.

4. In Chapter 11 in what way are the children reminded of being at home?

5. What does the narrator explain the children should be nervous about at the end of Chapter 10?

6. How tired are the Baudelaire children as described in Chapter 8?

7. What do Isadora and Duncan tell the Baudelaires they have been looking for in old newspapers?

8. Describe the symbol that the luminous circle begins to take on.

9. What does Principal Nero tell the children about the exams?

10. What does Coach Genghis tell the children to do when they meet him after dinner in Chapter 7?

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