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Quiz about ASOUE 111 plus Lemony Snickets Autobiography
Quiz about ASOUE 111 plus Lemony Snickets Autobiography

ASOUE 1-11, plus Lemony Snicket's Autobiography Quiz


Here's a quiz that covers the material found in the first eleven books of A Series of Unfortunate Events, plus Lemony Snicket's unauthorized autobiography. I think it's fairly comprehensive.

A multiple-choice quiz by rickr_stny. Estimated time: 14 mins.
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Author
rickr_stny
Time
14 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
155,101
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
25
Difficulty
Tough
Avg Score
14 / 25
Plays
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Question 1 of 25
1. All of the following statements about the Baudelaires' stay at Count Olaf's house are true except: Hint


Question 2 of 25
2. All of the following statements about the play performed by the Baudelaires and Count Olaf's troupe are true except: Hint


Question 3 of 25
3. All of the following statements about Uncle Monty are true except: Hint


Question 4 of 25
4. All of the following are true about the efforts the Baudelaires used to expose Stephano and Dr. Lucafont except: Hint


Question 5 of 25
5. All of the following are true statements about Josephine Anwhistle except: Hint


Question 6 of 25
6. All of the following statements about the Baudelaires' visit to Lake Lachrymose are true except: Hint


Question 7 of 25
7. All of the following are true statements about the town of Paltryville, the Lucky Smells Lumbermill, and their inhabitants, except: Hint


Question 8 of 25
8. All of the following are true statements about the Baudelaires' conflict with Count Olaf at Paltryville except: Hint


Question 9 of 25
9. All of the following statements about the staff at Prufrock Preparatory School are true except: Hint


Question 10 of 25
10. All of the following situations occurred at Prufrock Preparatory School except: Hint


Question 11 of 25
11. All of the following statements about the Baudelaires' experience at 667 Dark Avenue are true except: Hint


Question 12 of 25
12. All of the following actions took place at some point during the Baudelaires time at 667 Dark Avenue. Which of them caused Klaus to be suspicious of the second elevator shaft ? Hint


Question 13 of 25
13. All of the following statements about the In Auction are true except: Hint


Question 14 of 25
14. All of the following are true statements about the Village of Fowl Devotees, its laws, and citizens, except: Hint


Question 15 of 25
15. All of the following are true statements about the Baudelaire's predicament at the Village of Fowl Devotees except: Hint


Question 16 of 25
16. All of the following are true statements regarding the Baudelaires journey to and at the Heimlich Hospital except: Hint


Question 17 of 25
17. All of the following events occurred at Heimlich Hospital except: Hint


Question 18 of 25
18. All of the following situations occured at Caligari Carnival except: Hint


Question 19 of 25
19. Snicket referred to three different scenarios as "the belly of the beast," including all of the following except: Hint


Question 20 of 25
20. All of the following statements about the experiences of Violet and Klaus in the Mortmain Mountains are true except: Hint


Question 21 of 25
21. All of the following statements about the experiences of Olaf's troupe and Sunny in the Mortmain Mountains are true except: Hint


Question 22 of 25
22. All of the following statements about Count Olaf are true except: Hint


Question 23 of 25
23. All of the following are true statements about facts the Baudelaires learned while undersea except for: Hint


Question 24 of 25
24. All of the following statements about the crew of the Queequeg are true except: Hint


Question 25 of 25
25. All of the following have been employed by The Daily Punctilio except: Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. All of the following statements about the Baudelaires' stay at Count Olaf's house are true except:

Answer: Olaf requested roast beef in his daily notes to the Baudelaires, but they made pasta and puttanesca sauce for his troupe because he didn't provide them with enough money.

It is true that the children were given difficult tasks daily by Count Olaf, and when requested to cook for the troupe were given only a little money, enough to make puttanesca sauce for their pasta. However, Olaf had not requested any particular meal to be served to his troupe. The request for roast beef came after he saw what they had made.
2. All of the following statements about the play performed by the Baudelaires and Count Olaf's troupe are true except:

Answer: Olaf's scheme to obtain the Baudelaire fortune by legally marrying Violet during the play was foiled because, as her legal guardian, he could not marry her himself.

Justice Strauss acknowledged the marriage was legal and that Olaf could give consent to Violet to marry him. The effort was thwarted by Violet, however, when she signed the marriage license with her left hand, which violated the local marriage laws since Violet was right-handed.
3. All of the following statements about Uncle Monty are true except:

Answer: Monty thought Stephano to be a spy trying to steal the Incredibly Deadly Viper, so he was going to leave the viper at home while Stephano accompanied them to Peru.

Dr. Montgomery came to believe that his new assistant, Stephano, was a spy for the Herpetological Society, and was going to try to claim the viper as his own discovery. To prevent this, he ripped up Stephano's ticket, and was going to have him stay and take care of the reptiles while secretly taking the viper on the trip to Peru.
4. All of the following are true about the efforts the Baudelaires used to expose Stephano and Dr. Lucafont except:

Answer: Sunny's "Aha" was a comment she made when Stephano revealed himself a liar. He claimed to be knowledgable about snakes, but then knew nothing about them when asked.

Sunny did make an "aha" comment when Stephano revealed himself to be a liar; however, his claim was that he knew nothing about snakes, but later revealed he knew a great deal about snakes and the Incredible Deadly Viper in particular after Sunny was bitten by the viper.
5. All of the following are true statements about Josephine Anwhistle except:

Answer: Aunt Josephine used her knowledge of the Sebald Code to craft a coded message which Klaus deciphered, revealing her intended course of action.

Josephine Anwhistle, the Baudelaire's second cousin's sister-in-law who preferred to be called their Aunt, loved grammar. Her misuse of grammar and spelling was the basis for the secret message that Klaus discerned from her "suicide" note. She did not use the Sebald Code, which used the ringing of a bell to identify the beginning and ending of coded messages.
6. All of the following statements about the Baudelaires' visit to Lake Lachrymose are true except:

Answer: Capt. Sham threw Aunt Josephine into the swarm of lachrymose leeches because she ate the last banana on the boat.

It is true that the banana Aunt Josephine ate attracted the leeches. However, she was thrown overboard by Count Olaf after she annoyed him by correcting his poor grammar during the "negotiations" to spare her life.
7. All of the following are true statements about the town of Paltryville, the Lucky Smells Lumbermill, and their inhabitants, except:

Answer: Sir, owner of the Lucky Smells Lumbermill, proposed a fair offer to the Baudelaires: employment at the mill in exchange for protection from Olaf.

Sir was willing to exchange his protection of the children from Count Olaf in exchange for labor (without any real compensation) for a few years, until Violet came of age. Snicket points out that no one would consider that a fair trade.
8. All of the following are true statements about the Baudelaires' conflict with Count Olaf at Paltryville except:

Answer: Dr. Orwell, her receptionist Shirley, Foreman Flacutono, and Sir were all conspiring to get a portion of the Baudelaire fortune.

Sir was willing to protect the Baudelaires in exchange for employment, but did not want them to add any expenses, which accidents would generate. However, he was not involved in a plot to get the Baudelaire fortune for himself.
9. All of the following statements about the staff at Prufrock Preparatory School are true except:

Answer: Vice Principal Nero, a talented violinist who had respect for the Baudelaires and Quagmires, hired Sunny as a receptionist.

Nero was the Vice Principal, and did take on Sunny as his receptionist. He was a violinist, but he definitely lacked talent, and rather than respecting the children he constantly mocked them.
10. All of the following situations occurred at Prufrock Preparatory School except:

Answer: The powder-faced women attempted to kidnap the Baudelaire children.

Olaf and his two powder-faced women associates took the Quagmires from Prufrock Prep instead of kidnapping the Baudelaires.
11. All of the following statements about the Baudelaires' experience at 667 Dark Avenue are true except:

Answer: When the children first met Esme Squalor, aqueous martinis, pinstripes, and orphans were out; elevators, light, and parsley soda were in.

The Baudelaires went to live with Jerome and Esme Squalor at 667 Dark Avenue, and learned that Esme was obsessed with staying "in" fashion. When they arrived, they had to climb the stairs to the penthouse because elevators were out, as was light, but aqueous martinis and pinstripes were in !
12. All of the following actions took place at some point during the Baudelaires time at 667 Dark Avenue. Which of them caused Klaus to be suspicious of the second elevator shaft ?

Answer: The doorman put up a wooden starfish decoration in the lobby.

Each of the answers describe events that actually occured to the Baudelaires while living with the Squalors, but it was the doorman's action of gluing the starfish to the lobby doors of the elevator that got Klaus to thinking about the elevators. The landing outside the penthouse was the only place with TWO sets of elevator doors; therefore, it appeared that the second elevator shaft was a fake.
13. All of the following statements about the In Auction are true except:

Answer: Gunther, a.k.a. Count Olaf, escaped with Esme when those pursuing him ran into the caterers from Cafe Salmonella.

Very Fancy Doilies, purchased by Sunny Baudelaire, turned out to be very slippery, and caused the accidents which allowed Olaf, Esme, and their associate to escape.
14. All of the following are true statements about the Village of Fowl Devotees, its laws, and citizens, except:

Answer: Many V.F.D. citizens requested the Baudelaire children live with them. To settle the debate, the Council of Elders assigned Hector to be their guardian.

The village V.F.D. did get involved in the guardian program based on the aphorism "it takes a village to raise a child." However, they were interested mainly in having children do their chores; they didn't actually want to have the children around, so Hector was appointed caretaker of the Baudelaires.
15. All of the following are true statements about the Baudelaire's predicament at the Village of Fowl Devotees except:

Answer: Officer Luciana and Detective Dupin attempted to violate Rule #1, the most important rule of the Village of Fowl Devotees: "Citizens must not be burned at the stake."

Unfortunately for Luciana, who turned out to be Esme Squalor, she injured a crow, violating the most important rule in the Village of Fowl Devotees.
16. All of the following are true statements regarding the Baudelaires journey to and at the Heimlich Hospital except:

Answer: Babs had two rules she explained to the Baudelaires: (1) Children should be seen and not heard, and (2) Healing sick people is the most important work done in Heimlich Hospital.

When the Baudelaires showed up, Babs pointed out that children should be seen and not heard, and that the most important thing done at Heimlich Hospital was paperwork.
17. All of the following events occurred at Heimlich Hospital except:

Answer: Klaus and Sunny found out that Violet was held in the hospital under the name Carrie E. Abelabudite.

While looking for Violet, Klaus learned about Olaf's usage of anagrams (Count Olaf=Al Funcoot) and then found Violet under the name of Laura V. Bleediotie.
18. All of the following situations occured at Caligari Carnival except:

Answer: Esme Squalor brought gifts for the freaks, including a rope for Hugo, a large robe for Beverly and Elliott, a razor for Kevin, a sack for Collette, and an oversized coat for Chabo.

Esme wanted Lulu killed. She gave gifts to the freaks to try to convince them to join Olaf's group and also to feed Lulu to the lions. The gifts included a razor to Chabo so she could become clean shaven, an oversized coat for Hugo so his hunchback wouldn't be noticable, a large robe for Collette so she could contort her body without being seen, a sack for Beverly and Elliott to cover one of their heads, and a rope so Kevin could tie one of his hands behind his back.
19. Snicket referred to three different scenarios as "the belly of the beast," including all of the following except:

Answer: Madame Lulu finding Chabo the Wolf Baby as well as Beverly and Elliott snooping around in her fortune-telling tent.

All of the events described did actually occur in the storyline, but Snicket does not refer to Madame Lulu's discovery of the disguised Baudelaires as being in the belly of the beast. The trunk and the caravan were symbolic references, while the lions feeding was a literal reference.
20. All of the following statements about the experiences of Violet and Klaus in the Mortmain Mountains are true except:

Answer: When asked for the central theme of Anna Karenina as a password for the Vernacularly Fastened Door, Klaus typed in the one-word response, "T-R-A-G-E-D-Y."

The Baudelaires met Quigley Quagmire, who led them to the V.F.D. Headquarters, where they had to enter passwords to enter through the Vernacularly Fastened Door. Fortunately, Klaus knew the central theme of Anna Karenina, namely "a rural life of moral simplicity, despite its monotony, is the preferable personal narrative to a daring life of impulsive passion, which only leads to tragedy," all of which needed to be entered as the password.
21. All of the following statements about the experiences of Olaf's troupe and Sunny in the Mortmain Mountains are true except:

Answer: In front of the three volunteers, Esme and Olaf argued over which was more important, the Quagmire fortune or the Baudelaire fortune.

Esme and Olaf argued as to whether the Baudelaire fortune or the location of the sugar bowl was more important, which decision would decide the fate of Sunny Baudelaire.
22. All of the following statements about Count Olaf are true except:

Answer: Olaf was born at Valorous Farms Dairy, which has been misidentified in a famous song as a cattle farm.

It was Lemony Snicket, not Count Olaf, who was born at Valorous Farms Dairy, noted as a cattle farm in the song "The Little Snicket Lad."
23. All of the following are true statements about facts the Baudelaires learned while undersea except for:

Answer: A woman left the Gorgonian Grotto, appeared at the Queequeg, and convinced the captain and cook to follow her.

Gregor Anwhistle, brother of Ike, was working on a plan involving the Medusoid Mycelium, but he was warned of the danger in pursuing this plan by Kit Snicket, who suggested he was playing with fire. Gregor died in a fire that burned down Anwhistle Aquatics; Jacques Snicket, in an article published in the "Daily Punctilio", wrote that Fernald Widdershins had been confirmed as the person who started the fire. The Baudelaires learned from Kit's letter that the VFD factory on Lousy Lane would attempt to provide some dilution to the mycelium's effects; later, in researching Sunny's cure, they found out that horseradish (and its Japanese substitute wasabi) provided the antidote.

It is true that a woman left the grotto and convinced the captain and Phil to leave the Queequeg; however, it is not true that the Baudelaires were aware of this while they were still undersea.
24. All of the following statements about the crew of the Queequeg are true except:

Answer: The captain of the Queequeg had one fatal personality quirk -- he took too long to make decisions, as he wanted to analyze everything first.

The cook was Phil, whom the Baudelaires had met previously at the Lucky Smells Lumbermill. Fiona's brother, Fernald, is the hook-handed man, and she helped convince him to help the Baudelaires leave the brig and get back onto the Queequeg so they could escape. Finding the sugar bowl was the task of the crew of the Queequeg, but they failed to complete this task.

It wasn't because Captain Widdershins was hesitant, however; his motto was "He who hesitates is lost."
25. All of the following have been employed by The Daily Punctilio except:

Answer: Jerome Squalor

Lemony Snicket was, at one point, a drama critic for The Daily Punctilio. He was fired by the editor-in-chief, Eleanora Poe. Geraldine Julienne wrote the column "Secret Organizations You Should Know About" for the Punctilio. There is no record that Jerome Squalor ever worked for the Daily Punctilio.
Source: Author rickr_stny

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