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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. In addition to having more money, what reason does Laura give for wanting to get a job that will pay her every two weeks?
(a) Then she will be able to tell her mom that she eats dinner at work.
(b) Then she will be able to save for a car.
(c) Then she will be able to be away from home more often.
(d) Then she will be able to save for college.

2. What is distinctive about the writing in the diary when it is BOB writing, rather than Laura?
(a) The writing is in cursive.
(b) The writing is in crayon.
(c) The writing is backwards.
(d) The writing is in all capital letters.

3. When Laura hears her dad complain to her mom that Laura wants to be alone around the new year, how does Laura's mom reply?
(a) She says Laura has painful menstrual cramps.
(b) She says Laura does nothing except write in her diary.
(c) She says Laura has not been herself lately.
(d) She says parents are like the plague to teenagers.

4. What is the Log Lady's real first name?
(a) Mary.
(b) Marie.
(c) Matilda.
(d) Margaret.

5. What does Laura mean when she directs her writing to BOB, saying, "I can feel you deciding how and when" (90).
(a) That BOB is planning to leave her forever.
(b) That BOB is planning to murder Bobby.
(c) That BOB is planning to murder Laura's parents.
(d) That BOB is planning Laura's murder.

Short Answer Questions

1. What reason does Laura give for not telling her mom about the biting dream, though she wants to?

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

3. What does the Log Lady tell Laura about owls?

4. What action does Bobby take to solve the problem that occurs during their flight away from the gunfight at the drug dealer's house?

5. When the man who had strangled Laura smiled, whose smile did his smile remind Laura of?

(see the answer key)

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