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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 is Mrs. Bass having Klaus do in class?
2. Who do the teachers say they should expel?
3. What colors were the rocks in the dump truck?
4. What does Klaus say he had though briefly about doing?
5. Why does Isadora suggest that the helicopter never arrived to take the Baudelaire children away?
Short Essay Questions
1. What do the Baudelaire children do in the shack to get ready for the exams?
2. Describe the symbol that the luminous circle begins to take on.
3. Describe how the day goes while the Baudelaire children are waiting for their meeting with Coach Genghis.
4. What is odd about the fact that Violet says "if we are lucky" as the narrator describes it in Chapter 8?
5. What does Coach Genghis tell the children to do when they meet him after dinner in Chapter 7?
6. Why do Klaus and Sunny not question Violet in Chapter 11 when she tells them she will need a crab for her invention?
7. What does Principal Nero tell the children about the exams?
8. What plan do the Quagmires come up with?
9. What do Isadora and Duncan tell the Baudelaires they have been looking for in old newspapers?
10. How tired are the Baudelaire children as described in 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
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.
Essay Topic 3
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?
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