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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Klaus believe the passageway has placed them under?
(a) A funeral parlor.
(b) The street.
(c) A forest.
(d) A barbeque pit.

2. With what does Klaus poke the walls of the passageway?
(a) His finger.
(b) Fire tongs.
(c) A stick.
(d) A book.

3. What does Isadora Quagmire have in her notebook?
(a) Poems about Olaf's plans.
(b) Notes on plants.
(c) Drawings of Count Olaf.
(d) A poem for Violet.

4. What is the doorman's real job?
(a) A basketball hero.
(b) An actor.
(c) A salesman.
(d) A mayor.

5. What does Violet find on her extra fluffy pillow when she returns to her room?
(a) A tool.
(b) Esme's note.
(c) A chocolate.
(d) A note from Jerome.

Short Answer Questions

1. After Esme pushes the Up button for the ersatz elevator, what do the Baudelaires discover in the middle of the elevator shaft?

2. Where does Klaus want to go once they climb back up the ersatz rope to the penthouse?

3. What does Sunny suggest they do to escape from the elevator shaft?

4. What does Esme say at the In Auction that surprises Jerome?

5. Who does the mailman believe the Baudelaires to be when he sees them come out of the trapdoor?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are Count Olaf and Esme Squalor alike?

2. In what ways are the Baudelaire children's skills handy and useful in Chapter 7?

3. What is significant about the fact that the Baudelaire children have been in the darkness for so long their eyes take a long time to get used to the light?

4. What happens to Sunny's character during Chapter 10?

5. What is symbolic about the Baudelaire children rising up from the ashes?

6. Why is the definition of "idiosyncrasy" necessary for the reader to understand before reading the rest of Chapter 7?

7. During the Baudelaires' climb back up to the penthouse, they are encased in darkness. What is symbolic about their climb in the shadowy dark?

8. How does Klaus convince Jerome to help them find the Quagmires without him knowing?

9. What is symbolic about Klaus's declaration that they had reached a "dead end" at the end of the passageway?

10. What is revealed about Esme Squalor in Chapter 10?

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