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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 does Isadora Quagmire have in her notebook?
2. What is the title of Lot #50 of the In Auction?
3. Where does Violet decide to hide the ersatz rope?
4. What does Sunny suggest they do to escape from the elevator shaft?
5. What is disconcerting about Esme's behavior after they exit the penthouse apartment?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. What is the importance of the doorman winning the big, red scarlet fish statue?
3. In what ways are the Baudelaire children's skills handy and useful in Chapter 7?
4. What is unique and strangely sad about the Squalor library?
5. How are Count Olaf and Esme Squalor alike?
6. How is the word "ersatz" used in Chapter 7?
7. What is odd about the doorman making bids at the In Auction?
8. What is the meaning of the red herring statue which is in Lot #48?
9. In what condition are the Quagmires discovered? What is the most important aspect of their condition?
10. Why does Esme continue to insist that Gunther left the penthouse apartment?
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
What is the symbolism of the Squalors? Explain how the author uses Esme's crazy demands and actions to reveal aspects of her character and aspects of her husband's character, Jerome. Use examples from the text to support your answer.
Essay Topic 3
Acceptance and rejection are major themes in "The Ersatz Elevator." Choose one of the characters (Gunther, Violet, Sunny, Klaus, Jerome or Esme Squalor) and analyze how he/she reacts to the acts of acceptance and rejection throughout the story. Use examples from the text to support your answer.
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