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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. To whom is Laura referring when she writes, "I think that the times that I have to go into the woods at night have poisoned me?" (55)
(a) BOB.
(b) Donna.
(c) Johnny.
(d) Bobby.

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

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

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Benjamin Horne, Laura's father's boss, treat Laura?

2. What does Donna say when she sees Laura writing about how she will cry forever when her pony dies?

3. When Laura tries on Maddy's nice clothes, who does Maddy say Laura resembles?

4. When Laura masturbates on her fourteenth birthday and BOB does not appear, Laura says she has won. What has she won?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

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

6. What is Donna's and Laura's goal when they return to the Book House all dressed up in short skirts and made up faces?

7. 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?

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

9. What method does Laura decide to use in order to drive BOB away and stop the sexual abuse he is inflicting on her?

10. What prompts Laura to proclaim that she is not sure that the Log Lady had been talking about the right Laura Palmer when she had predicted a happy life?

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