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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 is Violet thinking of inventing something for while they are standing on the dock?
(a) Violet's suitcase
(b) Mr. Poe's car
(c) The Fickle Ferry
(d) The president's bathroom

2. What does Klaus find attached to the door?
(a) A code with a nail
(b) A poem with a piece of tape
(c) A piece of paper with a thumbtack
(d) A map

3. What color is the front door of Josephine's house?
(a) White
(b) Black
(c) Red
(d) Polkadotted

4. What does Violet tell Klaus he is being while Klaus is going over the note Aunt Josephine left?
(a) Insufferable
(b) Unbearable
(c) Ignorant
(d) A pain in her butt

5. What sound do the Baudelaire children hear while trying to think up a plan?
(a) Josephine scream
(b) The stove exploding
(c) The burglar alarm cans
(d) Breaking glass

Short Answer Questions

1. What would happen to Klaus if he ate Mr. Poe's candy?

2. Who is on their way to the children since Aunt Josephine is dead?

3. What is Aunt Josephine afraid the door mat could do?

4. What does Violet say she can't invent?

5. What does Klaus say that he hopes Violet is clever enough to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. What does Mr.Poe tell the children in Chapter 1 as he puts them in the taxi cab?

3. What do the children do after Aunt Josephine sends them to their room in Chapter 4?

4. Describe what happens in Chapter six when Klaus looks at Aunt Josephine's suicide note again just before they leave to go meet Captain Sham.

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

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

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

8. Describe how the town looks as the children drive through it for the first time on their way to Josephine's house.

9. Describe the first meal that the Baudelaire children have in Chapter 2.

10. What does the letter say that the children find on the door from Aunt Josephine?

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