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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. After pushing the Up button on the elevator, what does Esme do?
(a) She steps into the elevator.
(b) She grabs an ersatz rope and climbs down.
(c) She laughs.
(d) She pushes the Baudelaires into the elevator shaft.

2. Which direction does Klaus suggest the Baudelaires climb to get out of the elevator shaft?
(a) Midway.
(b) Up.
(c) Backward.
(d) Down.

3. What sinister surprise do the Baudelaires discover at the end of the ersatz rope after the second climb down?
(a) Esme Squalor is there.
(b) The Quagmires are gone.
(c) Mr. Poe is in the cage.
(d) Count Olaf is waiting.

4. Who is a friend of the Baudelaires standing with Jerome at the In Auction?
(a) The doorman.
(b) The Quagmires.
(c) Esme.
(d) Mr. Poe.

5. What does Duncan Quagmire have in his notebook?
(a) Notes on plants.
(b) Drawings of Count Olaf.
(c) Information about Olaf's plans.
(d) A poem for Violet.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Violet tell her siblings she wants them to search the penthouse for?

3. While waiting for the Squalors to return from getting soda, what does Klaus do when someone talks to him?

4. According to Violet, what is the devil's tongue?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

4. In what condition are the Quagmires discovered? What is the most important aspect of their condition?

5. The gentleman at the Baudelaire mansion fire claims that the site is haunted. What is the significance of him calling the Baudelaire ghosts?

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

7. How are Count Olaf and Esme Squalor alike?

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

9. What is unique and strangely sad about the Squalor library?

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

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