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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say that he can tell the reader?
(a) Aunt Josephine isn't dead
(b) The worst is yet to come
(c) Mr. Poe won't be any help
(d) They are in far worse danger than Aunt Josephine

2. What does Violet suggest they use as a sample of Aunt Josephine's handwriting?
(a) Her diary
(b) Shopping list
(c) Her grammar notes
(d) Her last letter to Ike

3. What does Klaus see on the way to answer the door that reminded him of Aunt Josephine and how she had been afraid of it?
(a) The doorknob
(b) The sofa
(c) The stove
(d) The Lake

4. What does Aunt Josephine say the radiator might do?
(a) Give them cancer
(b) Fall through the floor
(c) Catch on fire
(d) Explode

5. What does Josephine say that Ike, her dead husband, could do?
(a) Pat his head and rub his stomach
(b) Keep his eyes open while sneezing
(c) Whistle while eating crackers
(d) Skip backwards

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mr. Poe say he needs to do in Chapter 6 after discovering that the note was in fact left by Aunt Josephine?

2. What does Mr. Poe say even the most intelligent people in the world often need the help of?

3. What does Klaus say about the letter Aunt Josephine wrote?

4. What is Aunt Josephine afraid the sofa will do?

5. What do the children have for breakfast with Aunt Josephine in the beginning of Chapter 3 when the children are trying to keep things in perspective?

(see the answer key)

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