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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 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?
(a) That her bedroom feels like a representation of someone else's identity.
(b) That her bedroom feels like it is closing in and suffocating her.
(c) That her bedroom feels like a womb that is keeping her from growing up.
(d) That her bedroom feels like a place that is foreign to her.

2. Where does Jacques hide Laura's Christmas present so she can find it when he tells her to?
(a) In a planter outside her house.
(b) In her white lace bra.
(c) In her closet drawer.
(d) In a birdhouse in her front yard.

3. What happens within Maddy's dreams about Laura?
(a) Maddy dreams about Laura being murdered.
(b) Maddy dreams about Laura being in the woods.
(c) Maddy dreams that Laura falls in love.
(d) Maddy dreams that Laura murders her mother.

4. What reason does Laura give for accepting the apology from the man who had strangled her into unconsciousness outside of the drug dealer's house?
(a) She knew she had made some grave mistakes in the past.
(b) It was preferable to being killed with his gun.
(c) She had regained consciousness and felt okay.
(d) She understood why he had done it.

5. When Laura writes that "darkness in sex is okay, as long as it is strange, mysterious darkness," (116) what does she say is the kind of darkness that she does not enjoy?
(a) "The darkness of hell or nightmares or dying" (116).
(b) "The darkness of nightmares or dying" (116).
(c) "The darkness of hell or nightmares or dying or suffering" (116).
(d) "The darkness of hell or dying" (116).

Short Answer Questions

1. What is NOT one piece of evidence Laura provides that she is doing well in school in the spring of 1986?

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

3. While planning how to avoid further nightmares like her biting dream, Laura vows not to let anyone hurt her anymore. Instead, she vows to do what?

4. Laura believes that BOB calls her by a certain name for a particular reason. What is that reason?

5. Laura writes in her diary that when BOB used to cut her when she was younger, he would say a specific thing to her when she bled. What was it?

(see the answer key)

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