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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 tactic does Laura try in order to get rid of BOB?
(a) She offers to trade for a different victim.
(b) She locks her bedroom window.
(c) She calls the police.
(d) She tells her parents.

2. When Laura hears Shelley complain that her husband Leo only wants sex, how does hearing that make Laura feel?
(a) She feels angry.
(b) She feels jealous.
(c) She feels depressed.
(d) She feels victorious.

3. What does Laura's dad do while he is dancing with Laura on Christmas Eve?
(a) He cries.
(b) He sings.
(c) He grabs Laura's mom and brings her into the dance.
(d) He falls down.

4. What action does Bobby take to solve the problem that occurs during their flight away from the gunfight at the drug dealer's house?
(a) He switches over to his second gas tank.
(b) He shoots the man fighting with Leo.
(c) He says he will send his older brother to retrieve his gun the following day.
(d) He drives around the barricade.

5. Laura writes in her diary that when BOB used to cut her when she was younger, he would say a specific thing to her when she bled. What was it?
(a) "This hurts me more than it hurts you" (88).
(b) "Someday when you're grown up, this will happen on its own" (88).
(c) "If you tell anyone, I'll kill you" (88).
(d) "Good children don't bleed down their legs" (88).

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Bobby and Laura do to celebrate New Year's Eve?

2. How long does Laura wait before she finds out whether Leo and Bobby are alive or dead inside the drug dealer's house?

3. Laura writes in her diary that she knows she loves Bobby, but wonders if she can truly let herself feel those good emotions with getting into trouble with someone. Who is that someone?

4. When Laura hears her dad complain to her mom that Laura wants to be alone around the new year, how does Laura's mom reply?

5. What is the only reason Laura agrees to start treating Bobby like a real boyfriend?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What offer does Laura make to BOB in an attempt to make him go away forever?

3. How is the theme of appearance versus reality evident in the scene in which Laura has just finished working on Donna's jacket and her mom comes into her room?

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

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

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

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

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

9. What event inspires Laura to start helping the senior citizens in Twin Peaks?

10. What is the significance of the first sentence that Johnny speaks aloud?

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