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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 does Klaus realize about the elevators in the apartment building and the penthouse?
(a) Two pair of elevator doors are outside the penthouse.
(b) Blue elevators are on floors 1, 5, and 18.
(c) The elevators are being secretly used.
(d) Elevators are on every floor.

2. What does the narrator say he would've done if he escaped from Gunther's plans?
(a) Call the police.
(b) Run away to a deserted island.
(c) Tell everyone at Veblen Hall.
(d) Run away to the far corner of the world and hide.

3. What three things do Klaus and Sunny discover that Violet believes will help free the Quagmires?
(a) Fire tongs.
(b) Baseball bat.
(c) Saws.
(d) Sticks.

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

5. According to the narrator, what do the Baudelaires feel as they climb the ersatz rope back to the penthouse?
(a) As if their whole life has been spent with Olaf.
(b) As if their whole life has been spent in misery.
(c) As if their whole life has been spent in the pit.
(d) As if their whole life has been spent happily but flawed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the doorman's real job?

2. What does Isadora Quagmire have in her notebook?

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

4. What does Violet say when she reaches the bottom of the ersatz rope a second time?

5. What does the man in the sunglasses tell the Baudelaire children at the In Auction?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. How does Violet plan to rescue the Quagmires from their cage?

8. What does Klaus mean when he tells Violet the time wasn't ripe for her invention?

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

10. How are Count Olaf and Esme Squalor alike?

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