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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. Who does Carmelita deliver the message from?

2. What does Carmelita Spats call the Baudelaire children?

3. What does Sunny tell her siblings to be on the lookout for?

4. What does Principal Nero say when the Baudelaires knock on his office door?

5. What does Klaus say he is going to read up on?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the scene as the Baudelaire children are told to leave Nero's office in Chapter 2.

3. Describe the food being served in the cafeteria.

4. How is Principal Nero's sonata in Chapter 5 described?

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

6. What does Mr. Poe tell the children as they walk up to the Prufrock Preparatory School?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does the theme change from the beginning of the story to the end of the story? Are the Baudelaire children better off in the beginning of the story or the end of the story and in what way?

Essay Topic 2

Do you pity the Baudelaire children? Explain your answer and why or why not.

Essay Topic 3

The series is considered dark and in some places has been banned for its morbid humor and negative view of adults.

Is this book appropriate for readers age 3rd to 4th grade? Why?

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