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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 NOT one false thing Laura tells the reader that people say about her?
(a) She loves her parents.
(b) She is the happiest girl in the world.
(c) She does not have any troubles.
(d) She is the perfect daughter.

2. 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 she had found them on the school bus and they were already stale then.
(b) She says that she had hidden them months ago and had forgotten where she had hidden them.
(c) She says that her boyfriend had quit smoking a few months ago and had given his last pack to her.
(d) She says that she has been too scared to smoke them for fear of being caught by her parents.

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

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

5. Where is Laura's favorite hiding place for secret items she does not want her parents to see?
(a) In the fort in the backyard.
(b) In the hollow of her bedpost.
(c) Behind the medicine cabinet in her bathroom.
(d) In the hole in the wall of her closet.

Short Answer Questions

1. Laura says that sometimes her bedroom is the best place in the world, but says it is different other times. What does she say about those other times?

2. 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?

3. Why does Laura vow in writing on September 15th, 1984 to stop writing in her diary for a very long time?

4. Why do Laura, Donna, and Maddy cover up the light emanating from the house into the fort?

5. What song does Laura's mom sing to her when she cannot sleep or when she has bad dreams?

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