The Bad Beginning (Chapter 1 & 2)

What is the last name of the group of three children?

• Baudelaires

• Smith

• Olaf

• Johnson

What is Violet best at?

• Reading

• Inventing

• Drawing

• Biting

Their misfortune began one day at Briny Beach. The three Baudelaire children lived with their parents in an enormous mansion at the heart of a dirty and busy city, and occasionally their parents gave them permission to take a rickety trolley-the word “rickety,” you probably know, here means__________________________-alone to the seashore, where they would spend the day as a sort of vacation as long as they were home for dinner.

• hard

• “unsteady” or “likely to collapse”

• smooth

• rocket

One of the things Violet, Klaus, and Sunny really liked about their parents was that they didn’t send their children away when they had company over, but allowed them to join the adults at the dinner table and participate in the conversation as long as they _________________________.

• helped clear the table

• mind their business

• don't talk

• don't tell anyone

‘Perished,’ ” Mr. Poe said, “means ‘_________.’ ”

“We know what the word ‘perished’ means,” Klaus said, crossly. He did know what the word “perished” meant, but he was still having trouble understanding exactly what it was that Mr. Poe had said. It seemed to him that Mr. Poe must somehow have misspoken.

• light

• alive

• disappeared

• killed

When Violet comes of age, the fortune will be theirs, but the bank will take charge of it until Violet is old enough.

• True

• False

But even given the surroundings, the children had mixed feelings when, over a dull dinner of boiled

chicken, boiled potatoes and blanched-the word “blanched” here means “____________”-string beans, Mr. Poe

announced that they were to leave his household the next morning.

• boiled

• steamed

• cold

• melted

Mr. Poe opened his mouth to speak, but had to cough a few times before he began. “Yes you do. I’m dropping you off on my way to the bank, so we need to leave as soon as possible. Please get out of bed and get dressed,” he said briskly. The word “briskly” here means “_________, so as to get the Baudelaire children to leave the house.”

• slowly

• quickly

• siting

• standing

“Yes, I heard about the accident,” the woman said, as everyone said how do you do. “I am Justice

Strauss.”

“That’s an unusual first name,” Klaus remarked.

“It is my title,” she explained, “not my first name. I serve as a __________ on the High Court.”

• super hero

• lawyer

• judge

• mom

They could see, in the space of pale skin between his

tattered trouser cuff and his black shoe, that Count Olaf had an image of an ______ tattooed on his ankle, matching the _______ on his front door. They wondered how many other eyes were in Count Olaf’s house, and whether, for the rest of their lives, they would always feel as though Count Olaf were watching them even when he wasn’t nearby.

• eye

• bird

• snake

• ears