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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. Laura says she thinks life would be easier if one thing were different about the world. What does she think would make life so much easier?
(a) If children could move away from home at age thirteen.
(b) If people were all the same.
(c) If everyone lived in big cities.
(d) If people had compassion for one another.

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

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

4. Where do Laura, Donna, and Maddy spend the night on the first night of Maddy's visit?
(a) In Laura's bedroom.
(b) In a fort they build in the backyard.
(c) At a hotel near the train station.
(d) In a tent in the woods a few miles away from Laura's house.

5. What reason does Laura give when she says she does not think she would make a good mother?
(a) She says that she does not like boys but that she considers it necessary for a child to have a father.
(b) She says that children remind her of the innocence she has lost.
(c) She says that too many bad things happen to her sometimes at night, referring to the sexual abuse.
(d) She says that she does not like the naïveté of children.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What gift does Laura receive from her mother that makes her feel that she is still being treated like a child?

3. When Laura's dad takes her to a mystery location on her birthday, where do they end up going?

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

5. What action does Laura realize makes her nightmares seem less scary?

(see the answer key)

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