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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. Laura believes that BOB calls her by a certain name for a particular reason. What is that reason?
(a) Because it distances BOB from Laura.
(b) Because he likes to think of Laura as being innocent and unattached.
(c) Because he wishes he were married to Laura.
(d) Because he believes Laura is deceptive.

2. What reasons does Laura give for sending her pony Troy away by whipping him with her reins?
(a) Zippy told her Troy was beginning to bite and kick and that the stables would no longer keep him.
(b) Troy would make his way to Johnny and Johnny needed a pony more than she did.
(c) He does not deserve a sinful owner and she does not want to care for him any longer.
(d) She does not deserve him and he does not deserve a caged life.

3. When Laura begins to put on sexual shows for others, what does she say she is thinking about during those shows?
(a) BOB's shock.
(b) Her mom's worried face.
(c) Donna's boyfriend Mike.
(d) An audience of a hundred people watching her.

4. What is the last line of the poem BOB always forces Laura to recite?
(a) A raging need does give us speed.
(b) The time to bleed is now indeed.
(c) With such speed does death succeed.
(d) In this seed is death indeed.

5. What action does Laura realize makes her nightmares seem less scary?
(a) Telling Donna about them.
(b) Drawing pictures of them.
(c) Writing about them.
(d) Telling her mom about them.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. On the day when Laura has an almost spiritually fulfilling day with Johnny, what do they spend the whole day doing?

3. What happens to Laura when she walks over to Highway 21 with the intention to hitchhike to Jacque's cabin?

4. What knowledge does Laura say BOB has that no one else has?

5. What is distinctive about the writing in the diary when it is BOB writing, rather than Laura?

(see the answer key)

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