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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 ignores her.
(c) He is very attentive to her.
(d) He is very mean to her.

2. 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.

3. The Log Lady tells Laura that "sometimes people go camping" (44) and that as a result, they do what?
(a) Get lost.
(b) Commune with nature.
(c) Learn things they should not.
(d) Don't come back.

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

5. 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 gotten her period.
(b) She had a fever.
(c) She heard a noise downstairs.
(d) She had a nightmare.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What action does Laura take when she first meets her new pony that shocks Laura's mom?

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

5. When Maddy tells Laura and Donna that she has brought cigarettes with her, what reason does she give for them being stale?

Short Essay Questions

1. What had Donna's and Laura's experience with alcohol been prior to their escapade into the woods with the three Canadian guys and the bottle of gin?

2. What does the Log Lady tell Laura in their meeting?

3. What does Laura say about why she loves her new diary?

4. When Laura arrives home and asks her mom about the Log Lady, what does Laura's mom tell her?

5. How is the theme of hope represented in the poem Laura writes on July 30, 1984, entitled "Someday Growing Up Will Come Easier"? (14)

6. What does Donna do when Laura runs out of the house when they are discussing the breakdown of their friendship?

7. What does Laura say about her feelings after the escapade with the Canadian guys in the woods?

8. What is the significance of Laura and Maddy's attempts to block the light coming from the house windows into their fort?

9. How is foreshadowing used within the scene of Laura receiving a pony for her birthday and checking the pony's gender?

10. When Maddy tells Laura and Donna what it feels like to kiss with tongues, Laura says the description makes her feel good inside, a feeling that she says is different. Though she cuts herself off from finishing her sentence, what does the reader know she is referring to?

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