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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. Where does Captain Sham say that he and Josephine had met while he is telling Mr. Poe the story?

2. What do the Baudelaire children say they will have while at the restaurant?

3. What is the creature on the docks doing as the Baudelaires sail away.

4. Which of the Baudelaire children goes in after the keys to the sailboat?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe the scene at the end of Chapter 12 where the Baudelaire children, Captain Sham, and Mr. Poe are having their argument.

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

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

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

7. What happens in Chapter 8 just after the children have found the atlas to tell them where Aunt Josephine is hiding?

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

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

10. What do the children think about when Josephine is thrown overboard and they sail away from her.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) The children are supposed to be the good characters in the story but they often have actions that are not positive. They lie, such as when Violet is on the phone and says it is wrong number, and they steal such as when the children take the sail boat.

2) Does this change the way the reader views these main characters? Explain why or why not?

Does this influence your view on the level of appropriateness for younger audiences? Why?

Essay Topic 2

There are a lot of dire situations in the story and it appears that Josephine dies after abandoning the children.

1) Is this book appropriate for younger audiences? Why or why not?

2) Did the death of Josephine influence your decision in any way?

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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