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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. What condition do the Baudelaires find the Quagmires?
(a) Nervous.
(b) Filthy and haunted.
(c) Happy.
(d) Healthy.

2. According to the narrator, what are idiosyncrasies?
(a) A fancy word for troublemakers.
(b) A fancy word for dogs.
(c) A fancy word for what is "in."
(d) A fancy word for unique habits.

3. What does Violet tell her siblings she wants them to search the penthouse for?
(a) Long, slender iron objects.
(b) Saw.
(c) Food.
(d) Blankets.

4. What does Sunny suggest they do to escape from the elevator shaft?
(a) That they call for help.
(b) That they use the net to escape.
(c) That they drop down to the bottom.
(d) That she use her teeth to climb up.

5. How does Violet propose to free the Quagmires from their cage?
(a) Telling Jerome.
(b) Calling the police.
(c) Contacting Mr. Poe.
(d) Welding.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. While comforting Violet in the hidden room at the end of the ersatz elevator, what does Klaus say the time is ripe for?

3. What does Gunther leave that contains information the Baudelaires can use to stop him?

4. According to the narrator, what do the Baudelaires feel as they climb the ersatz rope back to the penthouse?

5. What is Klaus's idiosyncrasy?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the children realize about Jerome Squalor as they reach the Veblen Hall and are confronted with Gunther?

2. What is Count Olaf's plan to move Quagmires out of the city and to get his hands on their sapphires?

3. Why is moving down the ersatz rope more difficult the second time for the Baudelaires?

4. How is the word "ersatz" used in Chapter 7?

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

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

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

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

9. What is the meaning of the red herring statue which is in Lot #48?

10. What is the importance of the doorman winning the big, red scarlet fish statue?

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