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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 believes the sheriff's evidence that her parents are dead.
(c) Because he likes Miss Perfidy.
(d) Because it is Primrose's birthday.

2. Why is the whaling industry dying in Coal Harbour?
(a) People are too afraid of the water to go whaling.
(b) The whales are endangered.
(c) Whales are too big to catch.
(d) No one eats whale meat anymore.

3. Uncle Jack has bought the Cantina's store. What other Coal Harbour business does he want to buy?
(a) The video store.
(b) Miss Bowzer's restaurant.
(c) The bait shop at the pier.
(d) The candy store.

4. Primrose's belongings are divided between three places. What are they?
(a) Miss Perfidy's house, her parents' house and the gym.
(b) Miss Perfidy's house, Uncle Jack's house and her parents' house.
(c) Miss Perfidy's house, the gym and Uncle Jack's house.
(d) Miss Perfidy's house, her parents' house and school.

5. What does Primrose do while Uncle Jack shows the "cinnamon house" for the second time?
(a) Learns to shoot hoops with Miss Perfidy.
(b) Learns to knit with her mother.
(c) Learns to play hockey with Miss Honeycut.
(d) Helps Miss Bowzer at her restaurant.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why is Uncle Jack so eager to sell the "cinnamon house"?

3. Does Miss Bowzer share Primrose's belief that her parents are still alive, living on an island in the middle of the sea?

4. What is so unusual about Miss Perfidy's memory?

5. What business owner is unhappy with Uncle Jack's attempts to make the town fancier?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Uncle Jack want to change Coal Harbour?

2. What does the reader expect to happen when the sheriff takes Primrose to his office?

3. What does Sheriff Peters show Primrose at his office?

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

5. In Chapter 1, what has happened to Primrose's parents?

6. Where does Primrose stay during her parents' absence in Chapter 1?

7. Of what is Primrose unfairly accused in the drugstore?

8. Where do Primrose and Uncle Jack live?

9. Why does Primrose return to the pier each day?

10. How does Primrose's mother react when her husband is lost at sea in his huge fishing boat?

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