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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 Violet say she cannot wait to do?

2. What is the name of the restaurant with balloons in the window and neon lights?

3. What does Klaus suggest they do in Chapter 4 but Violet disagrees with it due to past experience?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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.

4. What does Mr. Poe say about the children letting their imaginations run away with them?

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

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

7. What is said between the children in the beginning of Chapter 5 when they have an argument?

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

9. What does the narrator explain in Chapter 1 about the children and the adventure that they are about to have?

10. Describe the gifts that Aunt Josephine gives the children in Chapter 2?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain Josephine's personality.

1) Did she give any indication that she truly cared for the children? If so what?

2) Did she give the children over because of her fear or because she was selfish? explain.

Essay Topic 2

Aunt Josephine leaves a hidden message in a note for the children rather than protecting them or calling the police.

1) What does this say about her character?

2) What other methods could she have used to have hidden a message for the children?

3) Why did the author use a hidden message for Josephine? What did it accomplish in the story?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the family dynamics in the story.

1) In what way are Klaus, Violet and Sunny typical children and have a typical relationship?

2) In what way are they atypical?

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