View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What happens to make Laura wonder whether the Log Lady had been telling the fortune of the wrong Laura Palmer when she had predicted happiness for her?
(a) Laura fails a Chemistry exam.
(b) BOB visits her again.
(c) Laura's mother tells her she cannot attend the Homecoming Dance.
(d) Donna gets mad at Laura and refuses to speak to her.

4. 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 regret that she had not gotten contact information from the Canadians so she could continue the relationship.
(d) She feels relieved that the potentially dangerous situation had not resulted in harm to her or to Donna.

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

6. What does Laura vow to stop doing in hopes that it will stop BOB from sexually abusing her?
(a) She vows to stop keeping BOB's abuse a secret from her parents.
(b) She vows to stop thinking about sex.
(c) She vows to stop lying to her parents.
(d) She vows to stop leaving her window unlocked.

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

8. What is NOT one false thing Laura tells the reader that people say about her?
(a) She is the perfect daughter.
(b) She loves her parents.
(c) She is the happiest girl in the world.
(d) She does not have any troubles.

9. Maddy says that her life at home is fine, except for one thing. What does she say is that one thing?
(a) Her parents' nosiness.
(b) Her lack of a boyfriend.
(c) Her little sister's invasion of her privacy.
(d) The financial pressure her health problems inflict on her family.

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

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

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

13. What is the address that Laura sees in her mind that compels her to go find its location?
(a) 1600 Pacific Avenue.
(b) 1400 River Road.
(c) 1313 North Garden Street.
(d) 1327 Ellis Street.

14. On the day of her cousin Maddy's arrival, why does Laura not accompany her father to pick Mandy up from the station?
(a) Her dad gets tired of waiting for her to get ready, so he leaves without her.
(b) She is too nervous so she stays home to calm herself down.
(c) She sleeps in and her mom will not let her dad wake her up.
(d) She stays home to decorate the house for a welcome party.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Log Lady tell Laura about owls?

2. What happens within Maddy's dreams about Laura?

3. What does Laura say she would do if she could fly?

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

5. When Maddy tells Donna and Laura what it is like to have a period, what is NOT one thing she mentions?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 968 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample