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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4 and 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color is Primrose's hair?
(a) Green -- "the color of leaves in the summer."
(b) Blond -- "the color of autumn wheat."
(c) Orange -- "the color of carrots in apricot glaze."
(d) Purple -- "the color of spring lilacs."

2. When Primrose returns home, Uncle Jack has made her favorite dinner. Why is he being unusually nice to her?
(a) Because it is a holiday.
(b) Because he likes Miss Perfidy.
(c) Because it is Primrose's birthday.
(d) Because he believes the sheriff's evidence that her parents are dead.

3. What prevents Primrose from visiting the pier one day?
(a) An earthquake.
(b) Heavy rain.
(c) A hail storm.
(d) A blizzard.

4. What finally happens to Lena, the creator of the boiled potato recipe?
(a) She starts making potato waffles.
(b) She sails away in a hot air balloon.
(c) She and her husband move away.
(d) She eats so many potatoes she turns into a potato bug.

5. Miss Perfidy smells oddly of what?
(a) Used Q-tips.
(b) Bad perfume.
(c) Cheetos.
(d) Mothballs.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Miss Honeycut have crush on?

2. What did Primrose think about spending "family time" with her parents before they were lost?

3. During the boring speeches at a town meeting, Primrose searches her mother's notebook for clues. Instead, she finds only two items. What are they?

4. What are Primrose's comments about making caramel apples?

5. One of the girls taunting her says that Primrose's mother should have done what instead of sailing off into the storm to find her husband?

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