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Average The Bad Beginning Quiz | 10 Questions | For Children

This quiz is about the first book of "The Series of Unfortunate Events". It is "The Bad Beginning" by Lemony Snicket. This is my first quiz so I hope you like it!

A multiple-choice quiz by Amberkiz. Estimated time: 3 mins.

Author
Amberkiz

Time
3 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
267,743

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
6 / 10

Plays
907

One at a Time - Single Page - Timed Game

Question 1 of 10

1. At the beginning of the book, what did the Baudelaire's parents give them permission to ride on to the seashore? Hint

bus

subway

cab

trolley

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Question 2 of 10

2. What did the Baudelaires have for dinner one of the nights they stayed with Mr. Poe? Hint

boiled chicken

blanched string beans

boiled potatoes

All of these

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Question 3 of 10

3. How many people besides Count Olaf were in his troupe? Hint

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Question 4 of 10

4. What did the Baudelaires have for a closet while they were living with Count Olaf? Hint

a regular closet

refrigerator

bookshelf

cardboard box

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Question 5 of 10

5. What does Mr. Poe always do? Hint

hop on one leg

sneeze

cough

pass wind

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Question 6 of 10

6. How many banks did the Baudelaires have to go to before finding the bank Mr. Poe works at? Hint

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Question 7 of 10

7. What was the name of the play that Count Olaf wanted the Baudelaires to participate in? Hint

The Marvelous Marriage

The Magnificent Marriage

The Miraculous Marriage

The Majestical Marriage

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Question 8 of 10

8. Klaus held Sunny up in the air while the lights were off.

True

False

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Question 9 of 10

9. Justice Strauss adopted the Baudelaires after the play.

True

False

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Question 10 of 10

10. Who shut off the lights during the play? Hint

the important-looking man with all the warts on his face

the hook-handed man

the bald man with a very long nose

the extremely fat person who looked like neither a man nor a woman

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. At the beginning of the book, what did the Baudelaire's parents give them permission to ride on to the seashore?

Answer: trolley

In the book it had said that occasionally their parents would give them permission to take a rickety trolley alone to the seashore. Lemony Snicket explains that the word "rickety" means "unsteady" or "likely to collapse".

2. What did the Baudelaires have for dinner one of the nights they stayed with Mr. Poe?

Answer: All of these

Lemony Snicket explains that "blanched" is another word for boiled. Mr. Poe had announced at dinner that they were to leave his household the next morning.

3. How many people besides Count Olaf were in his troupe?

Answer: 9

Count Olaf had left the Baudelaire orphans chores to do, and one of them was to cook dinner for his troupe. They had to cook for 13 people - the three of them, and Count Olaf and his nine troupe members.

4. What did the Baudelaires have for a closet while they were living with Count Olaf?

Answer: cardboard box

Count Olaf had only given them a cardboard box for all of their clothes. Also, all three of them had to share one room.

5. What does Mr. Poe always do?

Answer: cough

Mr. Poe would always be coughing. He would always have to stop in the middle of every sentence and cough into his white handkerchief.

6. How many banks did the Baudelaires have to go to before finding the bank Mr. Poe works at?

Answer: 3

The Baudelaire children had to go to a lot of banks before finding Mr. Poe. At one of the banks, a receptionist had told them that she knew he worked at Mulctuary Money Management.

7. What was the name of the play that Count Olaf wanted the Baudelaires to participate in?

Answer: The Marvelous Marriage

Count Olaf had made Violet be the person who was going to marry him in "The Marvelous Marriage". Klaus and Sunny had to play some of the cheering people in the crowd.

8. Klaus held Sunny up in the air while the lights were off.

Answer: True

Everyone in the audience was scrambling around so Klaus picked Sunny up and made sure nobody stepped on her.

9. Justice Strauss adopted the Baudelaires after the play.

Answer: False

Justice Strauss had wanted to adopt them but Mr. Poe said that they could only be adopted by a relative.

10. Who shut off the lights during the play?

Answer: the important-looking man with all the warts on his face

Right after the man with all the warts on his face shut the lights off, Violet was trying to remember where the switch was. She was looking at it during the play and thinking of what she could invent with it. A few seconds later she found it and turned the lights on, but Count Olaf and his troupe were already gone.

Source: Author Amberkiz

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