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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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?
(a) Donna.
(b) Johnny.
(c) Her mom.
(d) Audrey.

4. 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 eat her favorite food in the cafeteria again.
(c) So she can have activities to keep her busy.
(d) So she can finish her Ceramics project.

5. What knowledge does Laura say BOB has that no one else has?
(a) The ability to truly anger her.
(b) The ability to truly excite her.
(c) The ability to truly frighten her.
(d) The ability to please her.

6. When Maddy tells Donna and Laura what it is like to have a period, what is NOT one thing she mentions?
(a) Anger.
(b) Sadness.
(c) Acne.
(d) Cramps.

7. 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 while chopping down a tree.
(b) He was killed by a train.
(c) He was killed in a car accident.
(d) He was killed while fighting a fire.

8. Maddy's advice to Laura about life is that there are lots of things in life that do not seem right at first. What does she say eventually happens?
(a) People start to trust that the universe has their best interests in mind.
(b) People seek out solutions and others help them see the reasons for every event in life.
(c) People move on to a new problem and cease caring about the previous thing that did not seem right.
(d) People settle into them after a while.

9. Where do Laura, Donna, and Maddy spend the night on the first night of Maddy's visit?
(a) In Laura's bedroom.
(b) In a tent in the woods a few miles away from Laura's house.
(c) In a fort they build in the backyard.
(d) At a hotel near the train station.

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

11. How does Benjamin Horne, Laura's father's boss, treat Laura?
(a) He ignores her.
(b) He is very attentive to her.
(c) He berates her for being a bad influence on his daughter Audrey.
(d) He is very mean to her.

12. What does the Log Lady tell Laura about children?
(a) That they are not as innocent as they seem.
(b) That they are just smaller versions of adults.
(c) That they are prey sometimes.
(d) That they grow up too fast.

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

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

15. When Laura gets together with her first boyfriend who used to tease her when they were younger, who is it?
(a) Jacques.
(b) Leo.
(c) Johnny.
(d) Bobby.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Laura masturbates on her fourteenth birthday and BOB does not appear, Laura says she has won. What has she won?

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

3. 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?

4. What ominous postscript does Laura add to her very first entry in her new diary?

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

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