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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 Count Olaf ask for when he enters the kitchen?
2. What fruit has been put with their breakfast that Count Olaf has served?
3. What does Violet call Count Olaf while trying to keep him from getting mad when she tries to refuse to take part in the play?
4. What does Count Olaf tell the children that he wants them to do in order to feel more at home with him?
5. What is noticed about the figure approaching the children before it gets to them?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the bald man do before he joins Olaf and the others in the dinning room?
2. Describe the people that come into Count Olaf's house to have dinner.
3. Describe how the story of the Baudelaire children is introduced.
4. What does Mr. Poe explain will happen to the children now that their parents are dead?
5. What is Violet's initial response to playing Count Olaf's bride in Chapter 6?
6. Describe the children's sleeping conditions at Count Olaf's home.
7. What is Count Olaf's reaction upon learning they are not having roast beef?
8. What does Violet mean when she says that Mr. Poe was like the executioner in Chapter 1?
9. What does Violet suggest they do in Chapter 5 while they are chopping wood? What is Klaus' reaction?
10. Describe the scene after Olaf and his troupe leave the house to go to their performance.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
1) What is significant about Mr. Poe's coughing fits? What feeling or thought is the author trying to impart to the reader by giving Mr. Poe these coughing fits?
2) What does it further say about Mr. Poe when the children go to see him at the bank?
Essay Topic 2
Why is the symbol of an eye chosen to be used in Count Olaf's house and on his ankle? What does this image convey to the children? To the reader?
Essay Topic 3
Describe the feeling that the children have once they are put into Count Olaf's home. How is this reflected in the room they are forced to share? Explain your reasoning.
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