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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 stops to talk to the children and warns them that Sunny is still in danger?
2. What does Klaus find when he tries to uncover Sunny to wake her up?
3. Klaus says that Count Olaf's plan wouldn't work if he and Violet were what?
4. What does Klaus say is the name of the book that he has been up all night reading?
5. What is it that makes Violet try the grappling hook even after she has been injured?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Violet find when she reaches the top of the tower and has climbed her grappling hook?
2. Describe how Count Olaf compares the children to a stubborn mule in Chapter 8?
3. What is it that Violet's parents told her when they brought both Klaus, and later, Sunny, home from the hospital?
4. What does the hook-handed man tell Klaus in Chapter 7 that frightens Klaus?
5. How does Klaus describe Olaf's plans as he has discovered them in Chapter 8?
6. Describe the scene where Violet is walking down the stairs to do the play, The Marvelous Marriage, in Chapter 11.
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 Count Olaf's response in Chapter 8 when Klaus calls him a terrible man?
10. Describe the play as Klaus recounts it in chapter twelve while he is watching Count Olaf's performance.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
Why do many of the adults continually treat Klaus and Violet as if they are children without any sense? What is the author's goal with treating his main characters this way?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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