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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 Captain Sham say Josephine jumping out the window would have been?

2. What sign do the children see as they get to the Fickle Ferry docks?

3. What does Klaus continue to do while they sail across the lake?

4. What is happening when the Baudelaires leave the restaurant?

5. What books does Violet say they need in order to find out what Josephine meant by the message left hidden in her note?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In the end of Chapter 11 what does the author mean by the phrase 'mixed blessing'?

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

4. Describe how Aunt Josephine acts when the children first get her into the boat in Chapter 11?

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

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

7. What does Klaus do in Chapter 8 when he enters the library room?

8. Describe the scene in Chapter 11 when the Leeches arrive.

9. Describe the invention that Violet makes in Chapter 11 and what it does.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Look at the motivators for Count Olaf.

1) Does his motivation seem to come more from a desire for money, power, or some other theme? Explain your answer and give examples.

2) How could these motivators be used as a good characteristic rather than a bad?

Essay Topic 2

1) What plots or events are left unanswered in this story and left to the next books in the series?

2) How would it have changed the book if the events had come to a close at the end of this story?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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