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

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

3. Miss Honeycut is from Europe, and claims to be related to whom?
(a) The Queen of England.
(b) Johnny Depp.
(c) Elvis.
(d) Uncle Jack.

4. When did Primrose's family decide to spend some quality time together?
(a) After Primrose was lost at the circus.
(b) After her parents came back from a vacation without her.
(c) When Primrose's baby sister was born.
(d) Before her parents went on a vacation without her.

5. The children who taunt Primrose remind her of what vegetable?
(a) A bunch of broccoli.
(b) A clutch of asparagus.
(c) A handful of baby carrots.
(d) A pride of squash.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Miss Honeycut's job?

2. With her parents gone, who is Primrose's nearest living relative?

3. When Primrose's parents are lost at sea, everyone else assumes they are dead. However, Primrose "just knows" they are where?

4. What color is Primrose's hair?

5. What does Primrose do while Uncle Jack shows the "cinnamon house" for the second time?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Miss Bowzer teach Primrose to bake that is both "tricky" and "sweet," and why?

4. Why is it called the "cinnamon house"?

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

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

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

8. Who calls the sheriff and why, when Primrose is in the drugstore?

9. What does Primrose decide to collect in her mother's notebook?

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

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