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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. What does Miss Perfidy serve Primrose to eat?
(a) Cold fish fingers.
(b) Stale tea biscuits.
(c) A hamburger.
(d) Hot waffles with bananas.

2. Uncle Jack tells Primrose she can come with him to show the "cinnamon house" if she will learn to do one thing. What is it?
(a) Ride a horse.
(b) Bake brownies.
(c) Climb a tree.
(d) Bake cinnamon rolls.

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

4. Primrose avoids the children one day by slipping into a store run by Mr. and Mrs. Cantina. What type of store is it?
(a) A grocery store.
(b) A video store.
(c) A drugstore.
(d) A candy store.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old does Primrose think Mrs. Perfidy is?

2. What is Miss Honeycut's job?

3. What recipe is at the end of Chapter One?

4. Who counsels the other children to be kind to Primrose because her parents are presumed dead?

5. What does Miss Honeycut bake for Uncle Jack in Chapter 3?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who visits Uncle Jack and brings him lemon cookies?

2. Primrose searches her mother's notebook for clues, but finds only what?

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

4. Is Uncle Jack a "developer" as the children claim?

5. Does Primrose believe in intuition?

6. How does Miss Bowzer feel about Uncle Jack's actions as a real estate developer?

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

8. Why doesn't Primrose show any grief about her parents?

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

10. Why does the town hold a memorial service for Primrose's parents in Chapter 1?

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