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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the main reason during the Christmas vacation of 1985 that Laura is looking forward to school starting again?
(a) So she can talk to Donna again.
(b) So she can finish her Ceramics project.
(c) So she can have activities to keep her busy.
(d) So she can eat her favorite food in the cafeteria again.

2. How does Laura feel after her foray into the woods with the Canadians and with Donna?
(a) She feels triumphant at having gotten away with her actions and regrets having to go back to her role as daddy's little girl.
(b) She feels ashamed and worries that the kids at school will find out and will judge her.
(c) She feels relieved that the potentially dangerous situation had not resulted in harm to her or to Donna.
(d) She feels regret that she had not gotten contact information from the Canadians so she could continue the relationship.

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

4. When Laura proclaims that she has realized that BOB's name is a warning in itself, what does she mean?
(a) It could stand for Beware of Bob.
(b) It is similar to the SOS distress signal.
(c) It is in all capital letters like it is being screamed.
(d) It means that he is unsinkable.

5. What ominous postscript does Laura add to her very first entry in her new diary?
(a) "P.S. I hope I don't die in my sleep tonight" (3).
(b) "P.S. I hope BOB doesn't come tonight" (3).
(c) "P.S. I hope my pony doesn't die tonight" (3).
(d) "P.S. I hope Mom doesn't take my pony away" (3).

6. When Laura has a dream about her diary, what happens in the dream?
(a) Her diary burns up in a fire.
(b) Her diary is continually blank no matter how often she writes in it.
(c) The wind furiously whips around her diary until it is torn to shreds.
(d) Her diary keeps eluding her grasp and she knows it is going to tell everyone what it contains.

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

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

9. What action does Laura take when she first meets her new pony that shocks Laura's mom?
(a) Laura throws a tantrum because she had wanted a white pony rather than a brown one.
(b) Laura looks underneath the pony to check its gender.
(c) Laura bursts into tears.
(d) Laura tells her dad that his present is a million times better than the stuffed animals her mom had given her.

10. What expression is BOB always wearing when he comes to Laura's bedroom window?
(a) He is always smiling.
(b) He always looks angry.
(c) He always looks hopeful.
(d) He is always scowling.

11. Where is Laura when she sees an address in her mind and feels compelled to go there?
(a) At the Book House.
(b) At the Roadhouse Tavern.
(c) At the stables.
(d) At Johnny's house.

12. When Laura reports that she and Donna have had several fights as of late, what does she state is the source of their arguments?
(a) Donna wants Laura to agree to go to the same college as she will, but Laura will not commit.
(b) Donna says Laura is acting strangely to her and is not being the friend she used to be.
(c) Donna says that she does not like Laura's drug use.
(d) Donna thinks that Laura is too promiscuous.

13. Who runs the Book House?
(a) Big Jake Morrissey.
(b) Jacques.
(c) Benjamin Horne.
(d) Johnny Horne.

14. What reason does the Log Lady give for knowing Laura would be coming to meet her?
(a) She was given a note by Johnny that said to meet Laura there.
(b) She was told in a dream she had that she should meet Laura there.
(c) She had telepathically communicated with Laura and had told her to meet there.
(d) She was told by Laura's father to meet Laura there.

15. When Laura masturbates on her fourteenth birthday and BOB does not appear, Laura says she has won. What has she won?
(a) She has taken control of her own sexuality.
(b) She has learned how to have pleasure without BOB's presence.
(c) She has made it to her fourteenth birthday alive.
(d) She has misbehaved without getting caught.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what town does Laura live?

2. What does Donna say when she sees Laura writing about how she will cry forever when her pony dies?

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

4. Why do Laura, Donna, and Maddy cover up the light emanating from the house into the fort?

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

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