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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. Primrose tells Uncle Jack he could sell the "cinnamon house" if he would just do one thing. What is it?
(a) Listen to Primrose's advice and insights about the townspeople.
(b) Make it smell like roses.
(c) Buy the new owner a puppy.
(d) Move away from Coal Harbour.

2. What is Uncle Jack's first reaction to having Primrose move in with him?
(a) He buys her new bedroom furniture.
(b) He is thrilled.
(c) He is reluctant, but finally agrees.
(d) He disappears.

3. Who teaches Primrose to make cinnamon rolls?
(a) Miss Honeycut.
(b) Miss Bowzer.
(c) Mrs. Cantina.
(d) Uncle Jack.

4. What do Miss Perfidy's cookies always taste like?
(a) Mothballs.
(b) Strawberries.
(c) Sunshine.
(d) Lemon.

5. How does Uncle Jack hope to make the economy of Coal Harbour stronger?
(a) By breeding more whales.
(b) By selling locks of Primrose's hair.
(c) By selling waffles worldwide.
(d) By turning it into an upscale tourist attraction.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Primrose visit the pier almost every day?

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

3. What smell do some people believe makes a house "homier" and helps to sell it?

4. Miss Bowzer suggests that Primrose have someone beat up the children bullying her. Who does she suggest?

5. Does the found item change Primrose's belief that her parents are still alive?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Does Primrose believe in intuition?

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

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

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

6. Why are Primrose's sweaters left at Miss Perfidy's house?

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

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

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

10. Who suggests that Primrose live with her nearest relative, Uncle Jack?

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