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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through December 21, 1987-April 10, 1988.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is NOT one piece of evidence Laura provides that she is doing well in school in the spring of 1986?
(a) She has made the Honor Roll.
(b) She is a member of the junior debate team.
(c) She has finished two extra credit projects.
(d) She has a perfect GPA.

2. Besides being glued to the television, what other reason does Laura give for both Leo and Bobby being unwilling to accompany her to her destination?
(a) They love the "macho thrill of sitting in front of a mountain of cocaine" (95).
(b) They do not "trust each other with that mountain of cocaine" (95).
(c) They worry that their "dilated pupils" (95) will give them away.
(d) They "could not be less hungry" (95).

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

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

5. When Laura masturbates on her fourteenth birthday and BOB does not appear, Laura says she has won. What has she won?
(a) She has learned how to have pleasure without BOB's presence.
(b) She has made it to her fourteenth birthday alive.
(c) She has misbehaved without getting caught.
(d) She has taken control of her own sexuality.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What does Laura vow to stop doing in hopes that it will stop BOB from sexually abusing her?

3. 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?

4. How does Laura feel after her foray into the woods with the Canadians and with Donna?

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

(see the answer key)

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