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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through July 22, 1984-October 12, 1985.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the main thing about being grown up that Laura says she is looking forward to the most?
(a) Getting to stay out as long as she wants.
(b) Being the only person who can make her feel good or bad about her actions.
(c) Having the ability to make her own money.
(d) Being the only one in control of how she spends her money.

2. Why does Laura vow in writing on September 15th, 1984 to stop writing in her diary for a very long time?
(a) She suspects that someone has been reading her diary.
(b) She thinks that writing in her diary is making BOB come abuse her more often.
(c) She thinks that writing about her life has made her too self-centered.
(d) She feels that thinking about writing in her diary has made her too conscious about actions she takes.

3. What is the last gift Laura opens on her twelfth birthday?
(a) A doll.
(b) A stereo.
(c) A diary.
(d) A sweater.

4. What does Laura vow to stop doing in hopes that it will stop BOB from sexually abusing her?
(a) She vows to stop keeping BOB's abuse a secret from her parents.
(b) She vows to stop lying to her parents.
(c) She vows to stop leaving her window unlocked.
(d) She vows to stop thinking about sex.

5. 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?
(a) She heard a noise downstairs.
(b) She had gotten her period.
(c) She had a nightmare.
(d) She had a fever.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Laura, Donna, and Maddy spend the night on the first night of Maddy's visit?

2. Maddy says that her life at home is fine, except for one thing. What does she say is that one thing?

3. How does Laura feel about the fact that the only people at her birthday party are her mom, her dad, her best friend, and her cat?

4. When Maddy tells Laura and Donna that she has brought cigarettes with her, what reason does she give for them being stale?

5. On the day of her cousin Maddy's arrival, why does Laura not accompany her father to pick Mandy up from the station?

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