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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 the hook-handed man tell Violet to do when he hoists her up into the room?

2. What does Violet's invention look like when she initially gets done?

3. What does the hook-handed man say he is going to go do?

4. Why did Klaus choose not to tell Violet that he had smuggled a book out of the library?

5. Why does Violet not untie Sunny immediately after the hook-handed man has left the room?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does the narrator tell the audience that they would find in his room as he describes it in Chapter 11?

4. While Violet and Klaus are trying to think of a way to get out of the tower in Chapter 11 what things do they discuss but don't offer any help?

5. What is Count Olaf's response in Chapter 8 when Klaus calls him a terrible man?

6. Describe how Count Olaf compares the children to a stubborn mule in Chapter 8?

7. What is described as the difference between the reasons that the Baudelaire children read the books and the reasons that lawyers read law books in Chapter 7?

8. What does Klaus do as the hook-handed man leaves the library to fetch Violet and Sunny in Chapter 7?

9. What is Justice Strauss' response when Violet and Klaus ask her if she is excited about being in Olaf's play in Chapter 7?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Is there anything that the children could have done to befriend Count Olaf?

Would he have been set on killing the children no matter what? Why?

Could Violet have offered him money and bought her and her siblings freedom?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

1) What is significant about Count Olaf's acting career?

2) Could Count Olaf have had a different career? Explain.

3) What is general thought about actors as a stereotype? Does Count Olaf fit this description? Explain.

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