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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the children first meet Mr. Squalor, what does he offer to get them?
(a) A slice of cake.
(b) A martini.
(c) A bed.
(d) An orange.

2. When the Baudelaires reach the bottom of the staircase after listening at every apartment door, who do they see?
(a) Gunther.
(b) Jerome.
(c) The doorman.
(d) Esme.

3. Where does Violet tell her siblings to meet her once they reach the top of the ersatz rope?
(a) The kitchen.
(b) The elevator shaft.
(c) Her bedroom.
(d) The library.

4. According to Mr. Squalor, what is his wife most attentive to?
(a) What's going on down the street.
(b) What's happening in the building.
(c) What's in and what's out.
(d) What's out.

5. Jerome finds Klaus a bedroom he thinks will fit his interests, but what's wrong with it?
(a) The library isn't close to his bedroom.
(b) The library is filled with books about fashionable things.
(c) The library is filled magazines about plants.
(d) The library is empty.

Short Answer Questions

1. Toward the end of chapter two, what does Esme find out from a phone call is suddenly "in."

2. How many floors down is it from the Squalor's penthouse apartment to the bottom floor?

3. According to the narrator, above all the other issues the Baudelaires have to deal with, what do they worry about the most?

4. Whom does Klaus think they should all look for, once the Squalors leave them for the day?

5. According to the narrator, what is an alternative meaning of 'mixed bag"?

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