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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. What does Coach Genghis have the Baudelaire children do the second night that they meet him after dinner?

2. What do the Quagmires tell the Baudelaires at dinner time?

3. What is the second message that Carmelita brings to the Baudelaire children along with the message to meet Coach Genghis outside after dinner?

4. Who shows up and makes fun of Sunny sleeping in her salad?

5. How many hours are the Baudelaire children able to sleep before getting up to start the day of classes?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe how the shack has changed as it is described in the beginning of Chapter 10.

3. What are the children sore from in the beginning of Chapter 8?

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

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

6. What plan do the Quagmires come up with?

7. How do the children do on their exams?

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

9. Describe the plan that the Quagmires have put into action in order to help the Baudelaire children.

10. What is odd about the fact that Violet says "if we are lucky" as the narrator describes it in Chapter 8?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Does reading this book make you want to read the previous in the series? The rest in the series? Explain the reasoning. Does the narrator's explanation that the Baudelaires' story doesn't end well affect your desire to read the other books? Why?

Essay Topic 2

The Baudelaire children seem to have a happy moment or two in this story, as they have in the other stories, although the stories always end rather sadly.

1) Would the stories seem different if it had ended at a point before Count Olaf showed up and the children were content with the Quagmire children? Explain.

2) Could the story have ended here rather than with Count Olaf kidnapping the Quagmires? Why?

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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