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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the narrator, what is an alternative meaning of 'mixed bag"?
(a) Placing a plastic bag and mixing it with cake batter.
(b) Placing a plastic bag in the bowl and mixing it with food.
(c) Placing a plastic bag in the bowl and stirring it around.
(d) Placing a plastic bag in the bowl and tossing it.

2. Who shows up at the onset of Chapter 4 dressed in a disguise?
(a) The Quagmires.
(b) Mr. Poe.
(c) Jerome Squalor
(d) Count Olaf.

3. What character has been put in charge of the Baudelaire orphans?
(a) The Narrator.
(b) The State.
(c) Mr. Poe.
(d) Count Olaf.

4. In Chapter 1, what does the narrator suggest the reader do instead of reading this book?
(a) Read the book.
(b) Curl up with a dictionary.
(c) Read the story backward.
(d) Skip ahead to chapter four.

5. According to Mr. Squalor, what is one thing the children can do to save breath?
(a) Call each other by their first names.
(b) Sip the air.
(c) Sit down.
(d) Sleep.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the Baudelaire orphans wear glasses?

2. According to Mr. Squalor, what is his wife most attentive to?

3. What word does Gunther continue to use incorrectly?

4. How could the Baudelaire children tell the clothes would dwarf them by comparison?

5. What two elements does the narrator use as references at the beginning of Chapter 4?

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