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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What are the buildings made of where Café Salmonella is located?
2. Why doesn't Jerome want to force Gunther to remove his boots?
3. According to the narrator, what is one good part of the Baudelaires' living with the Squalors?
4. Toward the end of chapter two, what does Esme find out from a phone call is suddenly "in."
5. According to Jerome, what is a xenophobe?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is symbolic of Jerome sliding down the stairs and his laughter growing fainter the further he descends?
2. What is the importance of the Baudelaire orphans' new guardians being named Squalor?
3. What is revealed about Esme when she comments that orphans are so "in" they ought to be in the In Auction?
4. What is the importance of the Baudelaire orphans' friends being named Quagmire?
5. Why are the references to the King of Arizona important to the story?
6. Why does Violet stop arguing with Esme about Gunther's true identity?
7. What is the importance of the doorman's strange clothing?
8. Why does Esme act strangely when Klaus asks her if Gunther took the elevator down from the penthouse?
9. Why does Esme reject her husband's idea to give the In Auction money to a good cause?
10. What is the significance of the doorman telling the Baudelaire children and Jerome they can't go up to the penthouse until Gunther comes down?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the genre of "The Ersatz Elevator"? Use examples from the text to support your answer.
Essay Topic 2
How does the author's use of puns develop the characterization of the narrator? Use examples from the text to support your answer.
Essay Topic 3
The doorman mentions to Klaus that every problem has a solution. Select three problems from "The Ersatz Elevator" and write the solutions used in the story. Discuss whether you think the solutions are effective. Use examples from the text to support your answer.
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