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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 Stephano do during the entire dinner meal?

2. What does Uncle Monty tell Klaus when he insists he needs to tell him something important?

3. What does Dr. Montgomery suggest he could get for Sunny?

4. What does Stephano do while they are at the movies?

5. What does Klaus ask Violet if they can do?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain Mr. Poe and the children's conversation when they tell Mr. Poe goodbye and walk him to the car in chapter two.

2. What stories does Uncle Monty share with the children and they share with him?

3. What do the children remember in chapter three while thinking about heir parents?

4. What do the children find when the open the door of the Reptile Room?

5. Describe the scene in chapter six when the Baudelaire children are watching Zombies in the Snow.

6. Describe the animals and things in the Reptile Room.

7. What does Mr. Poe tell the children in chapter one as they are walking up to the door?

8. Describe the scene in chapter two when Mr. Poe asks Dr. Montgomery who will be looking after the children?

9. What are Violet and Klaus doing while they are riding in the car to their new home?

10. In chapter five what do the children think about when they try to think about what life was like for them four years earlier?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In what way do the Baudelaire children work together? Could they have defeated Count Olaf if they hadn't had each other? Explain.

Essay Topic 2

The children see straight through Count Olaf's disguise when he arrives.

1) Why can't the adults in the story see through the disguise?

2) Why were the children unable to identify the hook handed man before Sunny bit him?

Essay Topic 3

The series is call A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS. What events in the story could be called fortunate rather than unfortunate? Why do the unfortunate events seem to overshadow the others?

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