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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. What does Olaf say he is doing when the theater troupe arrives?
(a) Hugging the children
(b) Finding plates
(c) Getting the food
(d) Punishing the orphans

2. What does Sunny do to Justice Strauss?
(a) Kicks her
(b) Hits her with a pan
(c) Bites her hard
(d) Bites her gently

3. What does Sunny do while Violet and Klaus are packing their clothes?
(a) Begins to cry
(b) Bites Edgar and Albert's shoes
(c) Spits up on Edgar and Albert's comics
(d) Bites the bed posts

4. Where does Mr. Poe tell the children they can contact him?
(a) Through Count Olaf
(b) His house
(c) The bank
(d) With a phone

5. Who knocks on the front door while Violet and Klaus are trying to figure out what to have for dinner?
(a) The hook-handed man
(b) Mrs. Poe
(c) Mr. Poe
(d) Justice Strauss

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Count Olaf say that he wants to use the children's money for?

2. What do the children see on Count Olaf?

3. What does Violet suggest the children could do in return for using Strauss' library?

4. What does the peep hole on Count Olaf's door look like?

5. What does Klaus wear that makes him look smart?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Mr. Poe explain will happen to the children now that their parents are dead?

2. What does the bald man do before he joins Olaf and the others in the dinning room?

3. What is Count Olaf's reaction upon learning they are not having roast beef?

4. Explain what happens when Klaus talks back to Count Olaf in chapter four telling him that their family money can't be touched until Violet is of age.

5. Describe the people that come into Count Olaf's house to have dinner.

6. What do Count's guests say when they find that Count is disciplining the children?

7. What is the children's response in Chapter 1 when they hear that their parents have just died?

8. In Chapter 3 what is explained by the narrator when Klaus says he hopes the person knocking on the door is someone to visit them?

9. How does Count Olaf describe the play, The Marvelous Marriage, to the children?

10. Describe the Baudelaire children's response when they first meet Justice Strauss.

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