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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What word does Aunt Josephine define for the children thinking they don't know the meaning of it, while she is on the phone with Captain Sham?

3. What does Aunt Josephine say the radiator might do?

4. What does Klaus suggest might be the plan of Count Olaf?

5. What does Aunt Josephine say that they should do for Captain Sham?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the children and Aunt Josephine's trip to town in Chapter 3.

2. 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?

3. Describe the library as it is seen for the first time in Chapter 2.

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

5. Describe the bedroom that Josephine gives the children to stay in.

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

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

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

9. Describe the scene when the Baudelaire children and Aunt Josephine are walking home from the market in Chapter 3?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) Why does Mr. Poe and Josephine refuse to listen to the children about Captain Sham?

2) What does this convey to the reader about the author's point of view?

Essay Topic 2

Why does Mr. Poe stand on the dock screaming at Count Olaf to stop rather than taking action of some type? What does this represent for the Baudelaire children?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the love for Grammar that Josephine has.

1) Was there any indication early on in the story that her love for correcting grammar would be a down fall for Josephine?

2) Why is it significant that it is this love of correcting grammar that seems to get her killed?

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