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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. Who does Klaus say they will take what they have learned in order to get Olaf in trouble?

2. How does Violet sleep that night?

3. Who comes by and tells the children they look wonderful after they are in their outfits?

4. Where does Count Olaf say that Sunny will remain until after the play?

5. What does Violet realize about Count Olaf that makes him even worse than before?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Klaus' all night reading in Chapter 8 compare to how he used to stay up all night reading when his parents were alive?

2. Describe what Count Olaf says and Violet thinks when he is asking her if it would be so bad being married to him in Chapter 8?

3. What does the hook-handed man tell Klaus in Chapter 7 that frightens Klaus?

4. Describe the scene where Violet is walking down the stairs to do the play, The Marvelous Marriage, in Chapter 11.

5. What are the costumes that Klaus and Violet are put into for 'The Marvelous Marriage'?

6. Describe the scene in Chapter 8 where Count Olaf walks the children out to see where Sunny is being held.

7. How is the tower described in Chapter 11?

8. What is it that Violet's parents told her when they brought both Klaus, and later, Sunny, home from the hospital?

9. Describe the grappling hook that Violet creates to attempt a rescue in Chapter 8.

10. How does Klaus describe Olaf's plans as he has discovered them in Chapter 8?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the relationships between Sunny and Klaus. Violet and Sunny, Klaus and Violet.

In what ways are they typical siblings? In what ways are they atypical?

Essay Topic 2

Violet and Klaus are the two main characters pitted against Count Olaf. Compare the characters of Klaus and Violet to that of Count Olaf. Does Count Olaf have any good qualities? Do the children have any bad ones? Imagine their roles are reversed, then explain how the story might play out.

Essay Topic 3

The children are trying to think up ways out of the tower and come up with several odd possibilities but nothing that will work.

1) What does it say about the children and their knowledge that they are able to come up with Molotov cocktails and polygamy?

2) What would you have done if you were in their position?

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