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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Laura feel about the fact that the only people at her birthday party are her mom, her dad, her best friend, and her cat?
(a) She is disappointed.
(b) She is angry.
(c) She is anxious.
(d) She is happy.

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

3. Why does Laura choose the name Troy for her pony?
(a) She names him Troy because her mom suggests it.
(b) She names him Troy because he is a surprise, just like the Trojan horse in the Helen of Troy myth.
(c) She names him Troy after her cousin Troy.
(d) She names him Troy after the pony in Mrs. Larkin's photo book.

4. 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 by Laura's father to meet Laura there.
(c) She was told in a dream she had that she should meet Laura there.
(d) She had telepathically communicated with Laura and had told her to meet there.

5. 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.

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

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

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

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

10. In what town does Laura live?
(a) Galveston.
(b) Twin Peaks.
(c) Garrison.
(d) Taylorton.

11. Why does Laura vow in writing on September 15th, 1984 to stop writing in her diary for a very long time?
(a) She thinks that writing in her diary is making BOB come abuse her more often.
(b) She suspects that someone has been reading her diary.
(c) She feels that thinking about writing in her diary has made her too conscious about actions she takes.
(d) She thinks that writing about her life has made her too self-centered.

12. When Bobby tells Laura that he loves her after their first sexual experience together, how does Laura respond?
(a) She tells him that she loves him as well.
(b) She leaves.
(c) She laughs at him.
(d) She pretends to fall asleep.

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

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

15. When Laura has a dream about her diary, what happens in the dream?
(a) Her diary keeps eluding her grasp and she knows it is going to tell everyone what it contains.
(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 burns up in a fire.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What is the last gift Laura opens on her twelfth birthday?

3. Laura says she thinks life would be easier if one thing were different about the world. What does she think would make life so much easier?

4. When Laura proclaims that she has realized that BOB's name is a warning in itself, what does she mean?

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

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