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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Aunt Josephine afraid the door mat could do?
(a) Hold deadly bugs
(b) Make the house look ugly
(c) Grow a fungus
(d) Cause someone to trip

2. What is Josephine's house attached to the hill by?
(a) Wood trusses
(b) Sheer luck
(c) Metal stilts
(d) Ropes and lattices

3. What does Violet say she can't invent?
(a) A place for them to live
(b) Proof of Captain Sham's true identity
(c) More time
(d) A new will from Josephine

4. What does Violet offer to do to make Josephine feel better about the Telephone?
(a) Throw it out the window
(b) Built one out of rubber
(c) Put in another ground wire
(d) Show her how it works

5. What does Klaus say they will do rather than live with Captain Sham?
(a) Go back to the bank
(b) Go to the orphanage
(c) Join the circus
(d) Run away

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the children get to Aunt Josephine's house?

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

3. What does the narrator say that he can tell the reader?

4. 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?

5. What does Josephine say that the tin cans in the room are for?

(see the answer key)

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