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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the visit with Miss Perfidy end?
(a) Primrose rushes off to an appontment.
(b) Miss Perfidy rushes to an appointment that may be imaginary.
(c) The phone rings.
(d) Uncle Jack comes to pick up Primrose.

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

3. What does Primrose do while Uncle Jack shows the "cinnamon house" for the first time?
(a) Builds a sandcastle.
(b) Bakes cookies and goes to bed.
(c) Tames a wild horse.
(d) Does her homework and goes to bed.

4. When Primrose returns home, Uncle Jack has made her favorite dinner. Why is he being unusually nice to her?
(a) Because he likes Miss Perfidy.
(b) Because he believes the sheriff's evidence that her parents are dead.
(c) Because it is Primrose's birthday.
(d) Because it is a holiday.

5. How is Miss Perfidy's outfit unusual in Chapter 7?
(a) Miss Perfidy is wearing a bathing suit with a raincoat.
(b) Miss Perfidy is wearing a long, blond wig.
(c) Miss Perfidy is wearing all of Primrose's sweaters.
(d) Miss Perfidy has her dress on backwards.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are Primrose's sweaters left?

2. Why is the whaling industry dying in Coal Harbour?

3. What type of candy does Primrose receive while in the hospital?

4. Who is Lena of the "Lena's Boiled Potatoes" recipe?

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

(see the answer key)

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