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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 incident takes place while Primrose is in the Cantina's store, making Mr. Cantina very angry?
(a) Someone wears a funny hat.
(b) Someone breaks her arm.
(c) Someone leaves a cake outside in the rain.
(d) The dog's leash is cut, and he runs into the street.

2. Does Miss Bowzer share Primrose's belief that her parents are still alive, living on an island in the middle of the sea?
(a) o, Miss Bowzer thinks they ran away to Tahiti.
(b) No, like everyone else in town, Miss Bowzer thinks Primrose's parents are dead.
(c) Yes, Miss Bowzer is the only one who agrees with Primrose.
(d) No, Miss Bowzer thinks they went on vacation.

3. Left alone at night, what does Primrose worry about?
(a) If her parents are dead.
(b) If her parents are too cold and hungry on the island.
(c) If she left the iron on.
(d) If her plant needs to be watered.

4. What recipe is at the end of Chapter One?
(a) Fried Squash.
(b) Carrots in Apricot Glaze.
(c) Chocolate Chip Cookies.
(d) Roast Pork with Sage Stuffing.

5. How long has Primrose known Miss Perfidy?
(a) Two months.
(b) Two weeks.
(c) All her life.
(d) Twenty years.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many uncles does Primrose have?

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?

3. What group meets to decide who will have custody of Primrose?

4. What does Miss Perfidy serve Primrose to eat?

5. Primrose and Uncle Jack live in a house next to what building?

Short Essay Questions

1. What has happened to Primrose's father in the first chapter?

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

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

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

5. What did Primrose do when her mother smoked? What reminds her of this?

6. Does Primrose believe her parents are dead after the raincoat is found?

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

8. What does Miss Bowzer say when Primrose asks if she believes in intuition?

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

10. Why does Primrose slip into the drugstore one day?

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