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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 do the leeches do when they become frustrated?
(a) Attacking the tiller
(b) Leave
(c) Begin bitting small holes in the hull
(d) Ram the boat

2. What does the narrator say that Count Olaf's accomplice held Sunny up like?
(a) An ice cream cone
(b) A prize
(c) A sucker
(d) A dirty sock

3. Where do the children intend to get a boat to go find Aunt Josephine?
(a) Romantic row boat get away rental
(b) Rubber raft they find
(c) Local fishing crew
(d) Captain Sham's rentals

4. What does Violet realize the message in Aunt Josephine's letter means?
(a) Aunt Josephine isn't dead
(b) Aunt Josephine is nuts
(c) Aunt Josephine knew Captain Sham
(d) Aunt Josephine is going to rescue the children

5. What does Josephine say she will help the children do after she catches her breath?
(a) Sail back to shore
(b) Go to the police
(c) Bring in their luggage
(d) Run away

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Violet need from Josephine to make her invention work?

2. What did the children do when a car passed them as they made their way to the Fickle Ferry?

3. What does Klaus explain that he believes Aunt Josephine left in the note?

4. What happens to Sunny when she eats a peppermint?

5. What does Violet do with their coats when they arrive back at Josephine's house?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Larry the waiter offer the children to eat?

2. What is the realization that the children come to after talking with Aunt Josephine in the cave in Chapter 10?

3. What does the narrator explain when Violet says they are going to steal a sailboat?

4. What does Violet do under the table while they are eating at the restaurant?

5. What happens to the Baudelaire children when the eat the peppermints?

6. Describe how the children sail the boat in Chapter 10.

7. What does Aunt Josephine say when Captain Sham say he is going to thrown her overboard?

8. Describe the scene in which the children look in the window of Captain Sham's sailboat rentals.

9. What does Josephine's library look like when Klaus enters in Chapter 8?

10. How does the creature stop the Baudelaire children after it wakes up?

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