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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. When Laura says that she wishes she were younger again when she used to not remember specifics of BOB's abuse, what does she say she HAD been aware of?
(a) That she came home on certain nights crying and ashamed.
(b) That she was in pain a lot without knowing why.
(c) That she was afraid of the woods and did not know why.
(d) That she felt isolated from everyone in her life.

2. When Laura walks to Leo's house in order to get drugs, what is the reason he cannot come to the door?
(a) Because he is in the middle of a drug deal.
(b) Because he is in the shower.
(c) Because he is in his bedroom with a girl.
(d) Because he is passed out on the couch.

3. What does Bobby say to Laura that makes her hate him?
(a) He says that her laughter after their first sexual experience had scarred him.
(b) He says he wants to see other people.
(c) He says he does not believe in BOB.
(d) He says he misses being with the real Laura.

4. In addition to having more money, what reason does Laura give for wanting to get a job that will pay her every two weeks?
(a) Then she will be able to save for a car.
(b) Then she will be able to tell her mom that she eats dinner at work.
(c) Then she will be able to save for college.
(d) Then she will be able to be away from home more often.

5. What is the last thing that the man Bobby shot says to Bobby within Laura's dream?
(a) "Say hello to your mother for me" (117).
(b) "Beware of Bob" (117).
(c) "Death to you and yours" (117).
(d) "You watch that girlfriend of yours. Someone down here is saving her a seat" (117).

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jacques give Laura for Christmas?

2. Where do Bobby and Laura go to celebrate New Year's Eve?

3. What tactic does Laura try in order to get rid of BOB?

4. When Laura gets nervous around all of the guns inside the drug dealer's house, where does she go?

5. While Laura reports that she enjoys looking at most pornographic pictures in magazines, there are some she does not like looking at because they contain a certain element. What is that element?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Bobby and Laura spend New Year's Eve of 1987?

2. What is Laura's relationship with Johnny?

3. What retort does BOB give to Laura's idea to call the police and tell them about the abuse BOB is inflicting on her?

4. What behavior of Laura's is particularly worrisome to Laura's mom and what does Laura plan to do about it?

5. What is the significance of the incident in which Laura runs over a little girl's cat?

6. Discuss the meaning of Laura's poem on page 128 entitled "In the Eyes of the Visitor."

7. What is the significance of the list of 40 sets of initials within Laura's diary?

8. When BOB tells Laura she has become everything he predicted she would, what is her reply?

9. When Bobby asks Laura on New Year's Eve if she thinks that cocaine is a problem for her, what is her reply?

10. How does Laura feel after the party at which she won a sexual bet and hung around with people ten years older?

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