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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What song does Laura's mom sing to her when she cannot sleep or when she has bad dreams?

2. Where do Laura, Donna, and Maddy spend the night on the first night of Maddy's visit?

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

4. What knowledge does Laura say BOB has that no one else has?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What event occurs that results in Laura's meeting with the Log Lady?

2. How does Laura feel during the sexual experience with Rick and Josh and how does her feeling relate to the sexual abuse to which she has been subjected?

3. 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?

4. What method does Laura decide to use in order to drive BOB away and stop the sexual abuse he is inflicting on 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 is the significance of Laura and Maddy's attempts to block the light coming from the house windows into their fort?

7. Discuss the meaning of the very first poem Laura writes within her diary on July 29, 1984.

8. What do stuffed animals symbolize within the first diary entry?

9. When Donna and Laura leave the guys by the fire in order to relieve themselves, they get really scared. What are they scared of?

10. What is the significance of the moment when Donna finally shares her sexual fantasies with Laura?

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