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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through October 20, 1985-October 1, 1986.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When BOB tells Laura that she should be thrown into the river, what reason does he give?
(a) Because she would be happier living near the sea.
(b) Because she is dirty and needs to be clean.
(c) Because she is a naughty kitten and should be drowned.
(d) Because she is sinful and needs to be baptized.

2. How does Benjamin Horne, Laura's father's boss, treat Laura?
(a) He ignores her.
(b) He berates her for being a bad influence on his daughter Audrey.
(c) He is very attentive to her.
(d) He is very mean to her.

3. When Maddy tells Laura and Donna that she has brought cigarettes with her, what reason does she give for them being stale?
(a) She says that her boyfriend had quit smoking a few months ago and had given his last pack to her.
(b) She says that she has been too scared to smoke them for fear of being caught by her parents.
(c) She says that she had hidden them months ago and had forgotten where she had hidden them.
(d) She says that she had found them on the school bus and they were already stale then.

4. What does Laura do for her fourteenth birthday?
(a) She and Donna go to the movies.
(b) She goes to the woods by herself where she usually meets BOB.
(c) She goes to the Book House for coffee.
(d) She has a big party at her house.

5. What distinctive name does BOB always use when referring to Laura?
(a) Laura Palmer.
(b) Mrs. Palmer.
(c) Laura-Lie.
(d) Miss Palmer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Maddy's advice to Laura about life is that there are lots of things in life that do not seem right at first. What does she say eventually happens?

2. How old are the Canadian males with whom 13-year-old Laura and Donna bathe in the forest stream?

3. What is the last line of the poem BOB always forces Laura to recite?

4. What does Laura say is the reason she needed her parents in the middle of the night a while back and thus inadvertently saw them having sex?

5. Where are the two places on Laura's body that BOB makes tiny incisions during his abuse of her?

(see the answer key)

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