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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 happens to Klaus and Isadora over lunch?

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

3. What does Carmelita tell the children they owe her?

4. How many questions do the Baudelaire children have to miss before they flunk?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Coach Genghis tell the children about the exercises the children are to do and orphan muscles.

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

4. What do the Baudelaire children do in the shack to get ready for the exams?

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

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

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

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

9. What starts the fight between Klaus and Isadora?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) Is there any foreshadowing in the book that takes place without the narrator pointing it out?

2) Is the narrator's commentary helpful to the reader?

3) Is the narrator's commentary given primary for the younger reader to inform or for a entertainment value? Explain.

Essay Topic 2

Look at the behavior of Principal Nero.

1) Why does he insist on mocking the children?

2) Why does he raise their hopes about the dormitory before telling them they will live in the shack?

3) Why did he laugh at the children before they left?

Essay Topic 3

The children feel that running away is not an option. Given the people that are watching over the children and the fact that they continually fall into Count Olaf's plans would it have been wrong for them to run away? Explain your answer.

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