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Violet and Klaus must make their way up Mortmain Mountain to rescue Sunny and locate V>F>D> headquarters.
6 quizzes and 65 trivia questions.
1.
  The Slippery Slope, ASOUE, Book 10    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This quiz is based on the 10th book in "A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Slippery Slope".
Easier, 10 Qns, buggywuggyfresh, Feb 21 04
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  The Slippery Slope    
Multiple Choice
 15 Qns
At the cliffhanger that ended book 9, Violet and Klaus are rolling back down the Mortmain Mountains while Sunny is being held prisoner in Count Olaf's car with him and his troupe. Will the elder Baudelaires escape the caravan or perish inside it?
Average, 15 Qns, funkyduncan, Nov 16 10
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  Book 10: The Slippery Slope    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
If you like quizzes about ponies and happy stuff, then I advise you not to take this one as it is about the miserable tenth adventure of the Baudelaires. You have been warned.
Average, 10 Qns, Seagerald, Sep 18 06
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  Book the Tenth - The Slippery Slope    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This is probably the best book in the series, so I just had to make a quiz. Enjoy!
Average, 10 Qns, vchivate, Dec 14 07
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5.
  Book 10    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
My favorite book by Lemony Snicket is the tenth one, "The Slippery Slope". If you read this book and enjoyed it, you can definitely answer these questions!
Average, 10 Qns, mzperfect, Feb 08 06
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  Book the Tenth - "The Slippery Slope"    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
If you have come here to play an exciting happy and entertaining quiz, I am afraid you will have to turn back. This quiz is about unhappy tales about unlucky children. You HAVE been warned.
Average, 10 Qns, xxxH0ttiexxx, Jan 13 05
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trivia question Quick Question
What did Esme's dress look like?

From Quiz "Book 10: The Slippery Slope"





The Slippery Slope Trivia Questions
1. What's the dedication at the start of the book this time?

From Quiz Book 10: The Slippery Slope

Answer: When we first met, you were pretty, and I was lonely. Now I am pretty lonely.

Yet another funny but dark dedication. The other dedications are from 'The Bad Beginning', 'The Wide Window' and 'The Carnivorous Carnival'.

2. What type of musical instrument does Klaus bring out of the caravan after they have stopped it?

From Quiz The Slippery Slope

Answer: A ukulele

In the caravan, Klaus finds a ukulele which had once been played by Hugo the hunchback on lazy afternoons. A ukulele (pronounced you-ka-lay-lee)is a small guitar or banjo with four strings. Famous ukulele players include George Formby and Ernest Kaai.

3. What did Violet use as a drag chute to stop the caravan?

From Quiz Book the Tenth - The Slippery Slope

Answer: some hammocks

It's unbelievable how brilliant Violet is with her inventions. If I were ever in one of those situations, I probably would have tried to jump out, or died.

4. The book opens with the two eldest Baudelaire children in a dangerous situation. Where are they?

From Quiz The Slippery Slope, ASOUE, Book 10

Answer: Hurtling down a mountain side in a freak's caravan

Yes, sadly the terrible Count Olaf was responsible for putting the children in this predicament. He severed the rope that connected his car to the caravan, as they were going up the mountain to the VFD headquarters.

5. What were Violet and Klaus traveling in that was rolling down the mountainside in the beginning of the book?

From Quiz Book 10

Answer: a caravan

In the end of book nine, the rope tying the caravan to Count Olaf's vehicle was cut, sending the caravan speeding down the mountainside.

6. What type of insects chased (and stung) Violet and Klaus?

From Quiz Book 10: The Slippery Slope

Answer: Snow Gnats

71 of these vicious insects are also featured on the USA cover of the book.

7. What species of insect do Violet and Klaus cross paths with on their way up The Stricken Stream?

From Quiz The Slippery Slope

Answer: Snow gnats

Snow gnats are creatures which enjoy stinging people for no reason whatsoever. However, snow gnats will not go anywhere where they smell smoke.

8. What color was Quigley's commonplace book?

From Quiz Book the Tenth - The Slippery Slope

Answer: purple

Like his brother Duncan, Quigley wrote down everything in his book.

9. Along the way, Violet and Klaus encountered some snow gnats. The author described them as "well-organized, ill-tempered insects known as snow gnats, who live in cold mountain areas and enjoy _________ ________ for no reason whatsoever."

From Quiz Book the Tenth - "The Slippery Slope"

Answer: stinging people

Even though the snow gnats were harmless, Klaus and Violet had hid under a coat so that they wouldn't get stung by them.

10. What attacked Violet and Klaus when they were on their way to the headquarters?

From Quiz The Slippery Slope, ASOUE, Book 10

Answer: snow gnats

The snow gnats were awful. They were described as "a swarm of well-organized, ill-tempered insects, who live in cold mountain areas and enjoy stinging people for no reason whatsoever."

11. Who's the real survivor of a fire?

From Quiz Book 10: The Slippery Slope

Answer: Quigley Quagmire

The Baudelaires first met Isadora and Duncan Quagmire at Prufock Prep and were last seen in the self-sustaining hot-air balloon Hector made. Violet also seems to have a romantic interest with Quigley as seen in many pages of the book.

12. What does Count Olaf provide for Sunny to sleep in?

From Quiz The Slippery Slope

Answer: A covered casserole dish

A casserole dish is a large container in which you cook a casserole. A casserole is a delicious meal made by cooking meat, vegetables and other foods in liquid inside a heavy, deep container at low heat.

13. Where was Sunny forced to sleep?

From Quiz The Slippery Slope, ASOUE, Book 10

Answer: in a casserole dish

Sunny was captured by Count Olaf and he made her sleep in a casserole dish, as well as prepare all the meals and set up the tents.

14. Who were the two people that were recently introduced and had 'an aura of menace'?

From Quiz Book 10: The Slippery Slope

Answer: The man with a beard, but no hair and the woman with hair, but no beard

The two even scared Olaf and burned down the V.F.D. headquarters. Bruce is the Snow Scout master and (unfortunately) Carmelita's uncle. He was first seen in 'The Reptile Room'. The others are V.F.D. members except for Esme's sister and Olaf's brother, who I doubt really exist.

15. What word that begins with 'X' is in the Snow Scout Alphabet pledge?

From Quiz The Slippery Slope

Answer: Xylophone

Bruce decided to use the word 'xylophone', which is a wooden percussion instrument, in the snow scout alphabet pledge. The mysterious sweatered scout thought this was a bad reason as a person couldn't possibly be 'xylophone.' He said that there was a better word, called 'xenial', which means welcoming to foreigners.

16. How did Olaf's tire get punctured?

From Quiz Book the Tenth - The Slippery Slope

Answer: Violet accidentally hit it with a fork

Violet must have hit the tire pretty hard. Even bike tires rarely get punctured with a fork.

17. Whose voice spoke to Violet and Klaus from the cave they were trying to find shelter in?

From Quiz The Slippery Slope, ASOUE, Book 10

Answer: Carmelita Spats & Carmelita

Violet and Klaus had thought they would never hear the voice of Carmelita ever again. She was a student at the Prufrock Predatory School along with the Baudelaires, and always made fun of them for being orphans, calling them "cakesniffers," whatever that means.

18. Uncle____ was the leader of the Snow Scouts.

From Quiz Book 10

Answer: Bruce

Uncle Bruce was the person whose name was written on his badge when he was carrying Uncle Monty's reptiles out into a delivery truck. He is also Carmelita Spats's uncle.

19. How many dishes did Sunny make for Olaf's troupe in the book?

From Quiz Book 10: The Slippery Slope

Answer: 3

Breakfast- Cold Coffee Lunch- Smoked Salmon Dinner- False Spring Rolls Although Sunny does an excellent job making the meals and the troupe even praises her, Olaf still says her cooking is horrible.

20. What is the official name for the chimney that Violet, Klaus and the sweatered snow scout ascend?

From Quiz The Slippery Slope

Answer: Vertical Flame Diversion

It was called a Vertical Flame Diversion, and it had the initials V.F.D. like nearly everything associated with this organization.

21. When Violet, Klaus and the kid in the white sweater got to the Vernacularly Fastened Door, What was the second phrase used to unlock the lock?

From Quiz Book the Tenth - "The Slippery Slope"

Answer: Panthera Leo

Panthera Leo stands for Volunteer Feline Detectives.

22. Who were the Baudelaires surprised to find out was alive after all?

From Quiz The Slippery Slope, ASOUE, Book 10

Answer: Quigley Quagmire

Quigley supposedly died in the fire that killed his parents. The Baudelaires had met Quigley's siblings, Duncan and Isadora, who are triplets, and had became good friends with them.

23. What does 'Set!' mean?

From Quiz Book 10: The Slippery Slope

Answer: I knew you would find me!

Sunny said this when she saw Violet and Quigley reaching the top of Mount Fraught. Later, she even proves to Violet she's not a baby anymore, saying that in a proper sentence.

24. What were the names of Quigley's siblings?

From Quiz Book the Tenth - The Slippery Slope

Answer: Duncan and Isadora

The Baudelaires first met two of the three triplets at Prufrock Preparatory School, and they became fast friends.

25. What was the word Sunny said that meant she agreed to cook the dinner?

From Quiz Book the Tenth - "The Slippery Slope"

Answer: Lox

"'Lox' is a word which refers to smoked salmon, and it is a delicious way to enjoy freshly caught fish."

26. What color smoke came out of the "cigarettes?"

From Quiz The Slippery Slope, ASOUE, Book 10

Answer: green

The cigarettes were actually called Verdant Flammable Devies, used as signalling devices by the volunteers to let other volunteers know where they were.

27. What did Esme's dress look like?

From Quiz Book 10: The Slippery Slope

Answer: Fire

Violet, Klaus and Quigley plotted to capture her but backed out for noble reasons. They even allow Esme to be carried by them on a toboggan up the peak where she keeps on blabbering and shouting 'Musk!' However, she doesn't even know the real identities of the 'volunteers' until they reveal themselves later on.

28. What was the true identity of the sweatered Snow Scout?

From Quiz The Slippery Slope

Answer: Quigley Quagmire

Quigley Quagmire was the third Quagmire triplet. When his house was burning down he was placed in a secret passage that his parents had never mentioned. While Quigley was in the secret passageway he heard his house burning down. After the fire was over he tried to lift the trap door but it wouldn't budge. He followed the secret passage, and he eventually got to the house of Dr. Montgomery Montgomery, the Baudelaire children's former guardian.

29. What was Quigley's sister extremely good at doing?

From Quiz Book the Tenth - The Slippery Slope

Answer: writing couplets

Isadora gave the Baudelaires clues through her couplets in the "Vile Village." If only she were here now...

30. How did the children find a way to climb up the frozen waterfall?

From Quiz The Slippery Slope, ASOUE, Book 10

Answer: They strapped forks to their shoes

Violet thought of the idea to strap forks to their shoes so they could climb up the waterfall to save their baby sister. Violet was always coming up with good inventions.

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