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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 11 and 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Miss Honeycut say about the guinea pig's haircut?
(a) That guinea pigs should be dyed pink.
(b) That it looks great.
(c) Nothing -- Miss Honeycut doesn't notice it.
(d) That Primrose attacked a "small, helpless animal."

2. After the guinea pig incident, where do Primrose and Uncle Jack go for dinner?
(a) The Girl on a Yellow Swing restaurant.
(b) The Girl on a Red Swing restaurant.
(c) Miss Perfidy's house.
(d) Uncle Jack's house.

3. What does Primrose do while Uncle Jack is showing the "cinnamon house"?
(a) She shivers because she is cold.
(b) She climbs a tree because she is scared.
(c) She amuses herself in the street because she is bored.
(d) She naps under a car because she is tired.

4. What activity does Uncle Jack suggest that Primrose try instead of just walking on the pier?
(a) Catching whales.
(b) Building sandcastles.
(c) Looking for clues to her parents' disappearance.
(d) Catching small fish and selling them to the mink farm.

5. What smell do some people believe makes a house "homier" and helps to sell it?
(a) Oranges.
(b) Cinnamon.
(c) Skunk.
(d) Roses.

Short Answer Questions

1. Does the found item change Primrose's belief that her parents are still alive?

2. Who also visits Primrose in the hospital?

3. Primrose tells Uncle Jack he could sell the "cinnamon house" if he would just do one thing. What is it?

4. How long does it take before Primrose knows Evie and Bert well enough to tell them about her adventures?

5. Why does Uncle Jack not like Miss Bowzer's habit of serving everything on a waffle?

(see the answer key)

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