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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through December 21, 1987-April 10, 1988.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Laura's dad do while he is dancing with Laura on Christmas Eve?
(a) He grabs Laura's mom and brings her into the dance.
(b) He sings.
(c) He falls down.
(d) He cries.

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

3. While Laura reports that she enjoys looking at most pornographic pictures in magazines, there are some she does not like looking at because they contain a certain element. What is that element?
(a) Costumes.
(b) Kissing.
(c) Young and innocent-looking girls.
(d) Pain.

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) In a tent in the woods a few miles away from Laura's house.
(d) At a hotel near the train station.

5. What action does Bobby take to solve the problem that occurs during their flight away from the gunfight at the drug dealer's house?
(a) He shoots the man fighting with Leo.
(b) He says he will send his older brother to retrieve his gun the following day.
(c) He switches over to his second gas tank.
(d) He drives around the barricade.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What story does Laura's mom tell about Laura at a dinner party that deeply embarrasses Laura and makes her wary of telling her things in the future?

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

4. After the biting dream, Laura promises that she will be good and do everything she is supposed to do, just like what other character?

5. How does Benjamin Horne, Laura's father's boss, treat Laura?

(see the answer key)

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