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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 2 and 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Left alone, Primrose imagines the noises from the gym are what sounds?
(a) The chirps of happy little birds.
(b) The groans of dying whales.
(c) The barking of sea otters.
(d) The ghosts of dead whalers playing hockey.

2. Miss Bowzer suggests that Primrose have someone beat up the children bullying her. Who does she suggest?
(a) Miss Honeycut.
(b) Miss Perfidy.
(c) Primrose.
(d) Uncle Jack.

3. What do the other kids mean when they call Uncle Jack a "developer"?
(a) He is a real estate developer who builds houses.
(b) He works in a darkroom and develops film.
(c) He works in a gym and has developed athlete's foot.
(d) He works in a hospital and has developed chicken pox.

4. Primrose is first taunted by the other children when she is doing what?
(a) Walking home from school.
(b) Cleaning Uncle Jack's car.
(c) Playing a video game.
(d) Eating ice cream.

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?
(a) Build a new boat.
(b) Stay with Primrose.
(c) Call the Coast Guard.
(d) Wait until morning.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Uncle Jack hope to make the economy of Coal Harbour stronger?

2. How old is Primrose at the beginning of the story?

3. How many brothers and sisters does Primrose have?

4. Primrose moves in with Uncle Jack when he is transferred to Coal Harbour. He is eventually assigned to do what job?

5. The children who taunt Primrose remind her of what vegetable?

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