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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 Lake
(b) The sofa
(c) The stove
(d) The doorknob

2. What do the Baudelaire children feel as they walk home?
(a) Abandoned
(b) Doom
(c) Helpless
(d) Forgotten

3. What does Klaus say he still has nightmares about?
(a) Count Olaf's stove
(b) The tattoo on Olaf's ankle
(c) The play the children had to take part in with Olaf
(d) The thought of being taken back to Olaf

4. What does Aunt Josephine say that Klaus is being?
(a) Incongruous
(b) Impertinent
(c) Incorrigible
(d) Impossible

5. What does Count Olaf's smile turn into when Aunt Josephine turns her back?
(a) Smirk
(b) Sneer
(c) Growl
(d) Lagh

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do the children decide must be true about the letter in Chapter 5?

3. What is Violet thinking of inventing something for while they are standing on the dock?

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

5. Why don't the Baudelaire children eat the candy given to them by Mr. Poe?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the scene in Chapter 4 where Violet answers the phone.

2. Describe what Klaus says in the beginning of Chapter 5 about the note that Aunt Josephine wrote.

3. What does Aunt Josephine correct on Captain Sham's business card?

4. What does the narrator explain at the end of Chapter 5 in relation to the children crying?

5. Describe the scene in Chapter 1 when Mr. Poe hands the children the bag of candies.

6. What is said in Chapter 6 when Klaus says the note has been forged?

7. Why do the children think that Mr. Poe will not be any help to them in the beginning of Chapter 5 after Mr. Poe has been called about Aunt Josephine's death?

8. Describe the way that Aunt Josephine shows the children around the house?

9. Describe why Josephine refused to come get the children as it is described in Chapter 1.

10. What do the children find when they go into the library after finding the note in Chapter 4?

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