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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is NOT one piece of evidence Laura provides that she is doing well in school in the spring of 1986?
(a) She has a perfect GPA.
(b) She is a member of the junior debate team.
(c) She has made the Honor Roll.
(d) She has finished two extra credit projects.

3. How does Laura's dream end in a manner disturbing to her the night she has her first orgasm?
(a) The girl in her dream laughs at her.
(b) BOB comes and tells her that she is dirty.
(c) The boy in her dream cuts her with a knife.
(d) The boy in her dream climbs inside her and she realizes she is pregnant with him.

4. How old are the Canadian males with whom 13-year-old Laura and Donna bathe in the forest stream?
(a) 20.
(b) 18.
(c) 15.
(d) 22.

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

6. What does Laura do for her fourteenth birthday?
(a) She goes to the Book House for coffee.
(b) She goes to the woods by herself where she usually meets BOB.
(c) She has a big party at her house.
(d) She and Donna go to the movies.

7. What song does Laura's mom sing to her when she cannot sleep or when she has bad dreams?
(a) Someday My Prince Will Come.
(b) You Are My Sunshine.
(c) When You Wish Upon a Star.
(d) Waltzing Matilda.

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

9. When Laura gets home, her mother tells her that the Log Lady's husband had died, leaving the Log Lady a widow. How did her husband die?
(a) He was killed in a car accident.
(b) He was killed while chopping down a tree.
(c) He was killed by a train.
(d) He was killed while fighting a fire.

10. Where is Laura's favorite hiding place for secret items she does not want her parents to see?
(a) In the hollow of her bedpost.
(b) Behind the medicine cabinet in her bathroom.
(c) In the fort in the backyard.
(d) In the hole in the wall of her closet.

11. Where are the two places on Laura's body that BOB makes tiny incisions during his abuse of her?
(a) On the soles of her feet and on the top of her head.
(b) On the back of her neck and on the tips of her fingers.
(c) Between her legs and inside her mouth.
(d) Inside her mouth and on the undersides of her wrists.

12. How old is Maddy when she comes to visit Laura's family for a week?
(a) 11.
(b) 18.
(c) 14.
(d) 16.

13. What does Laura say is the reason she needed her parents in the middle of the night a while back and thus inadvertently saw them having sex?
(a) She had a fever.
(b) She had a nightmare.
(c) She heard a noise downstairs.
(d) She had gotten her period.

14. 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?
(a) To defend herself.
(b) To tell her mom what has been happening to her.
(c) To hurt herself first.
(d) To run at the first sign of trouble.

15. What distinctive name does BOB always use when referring to Laura?
(a) Miss Palmer.
(b) Mrs. Palmer.
(c) Laura Palmer.
(d) Laura-Lie.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What expression is BOB always wearing when he comes to Laura's bedroom window?

3. How does Laura feel after her foray into the woods with the Canadians and with Donna?

4. What does the Log Lady tell Laura about children?

5. What reason does the Log Lady give for knowing Laura would be coming to meet her?

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