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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Log Lady tell Laura about owls?
(a) That they can tell the future.
(b) That they are dangerous.
(c) That they are wise.
(d) That they are sometimes big.

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

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?
(a) If people were all the same.
(b) If children could move away from home at age thirteen.
(c) If people had compassion for one another.
(d) If everyone lived in big cities.

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

5. When Laura dreams that an animal wants to bite off her foot, what type of animal is in her dream?
(a) A bear.
(b) A raccoon.
(c) A possum.
(d) A rat.

6. 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) BOB visits her again.
(b) Donna gets mad at Laura and refuses to speak to her.
(c) Laura's mother tells her she cannot attend the Homecoming Dance.
(d) Laura fails a Chemistry exam.

7. 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 given a note by Johnny that said to meet Laura there.
(c) She had telepathically communicated with Laura and had told her to meet there.
(d) She was told in a dream she had that she should meet Laura there.

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

9. 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.

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

11. What gift does Laura receive from her mother that makes her feel that she is still being treated like a child?
(a) Stuffed animals.
(b) Costumes for playing dress-up.
(c) A dollhouse.
(d) Dolls.

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

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

14. What reason does Laura give for not telling her mom about the biting dream, though she wants to?
(a) She is worried that BOB will take revenge on her if she tells.
(b) She fears that her mom will make her go to the psychiatrist.
(c) She is worried her mother will laugh and will tell other people.
(d) She fears that her mom will say she needs to rest and will make her stay home.

15. What reason does Laura give when she says she does not think she would make a good mother?
(a) She says that children remind her of the innocence she has lost.
(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 she does not like boys but that she considers it necessary for a child to have a father.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Bobby tells Laura that he loves her after their first sexual experience together, how does Laura respond?

2. What is the main reason during the Christmas vacation of 1985 that Laura is looking forward to school starting again?

3. Laura's dream about the animal wanting to bite off her foot, Laura thinks that her mind is punishing her for what transgression?

4. What is NOT one false thing Laura tells the reader that people say about her?

5. Laura believes that BOB calls her by a certain name for a particular reason. What is that reason?

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