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Quiz about All Around The Town
Quiz about All Around The Town

All Around The Town Trivia Quiz


"All Around the Town" was released in 1992 and the first of her books I read, only it was some years later. It's about a young girl taken and then returned to her family, and the ramifications of that abduction.

A multiple-choice quiz by Gamemaster1967. Estimated time: 3 mins.
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Time
3 mins
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321,132
Updated
Jul 23 22
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Question 1 of 10
1. How old was Laurie Kenyon when she was first abducted by Bic and Opal? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. For how many years was Laurie missing? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. While Laurie was held captive, Bic and Opal called her by the name of Lee.


Question 4 of 10
4. Laurie's older sister Sarah grew up to work as this profession. Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. After the sudden death of Laurie and Sarah's parents, Laurie was pressured to start seeing a psychiatrist. What was his name? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. Which of Laurie's alters was sending love letters to her professor, Allan Grant? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. Retired prosecution detective Brendon Moody decided to help out Sarah in her quest to prove Laurie's innocence.


Question 8 of 10
8. Bic and Opal returned to Laurie's home area many years later with new identities. He was a preacher and she was a preacher's wife. What were their new names? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. Of all of Laurie's alternate personalities, only one held all of the missing time from her abduction. It was a little boy, about nine years old, named what? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. Who turned out to be Allan Grant's murderer? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. How old was Laurie Kenyon when she was first abducted by Bic and Opal?

Answer: 4 years

Little Laurie was the princess of her family. She wandered out of her home one day while her older sister Sarah was at a birthday party, and her mother was occupied with friends. She stood in her yard watching a funeral procession as a car stopped and two people snatched her away. In her time with Bic and Opal, Laurie suffered terrible abuse, neglect and mental torment.
2. For how many years was Laurie missing?

Answer: 2

The abductors never intended to return Laurie to safety. On a journey away from the farm in which they'd held her for so long, they stopped a diner. Their need to be totally discreet had passed them as they traveled further away from Laurie's hometown, and they took Laurie into the diner.

She became visibly disturbed, causing the couple to leave hastily. They quickly decided they would have to get rid of the child after the scene she'd caused and left her on the steps of a small town school. She was found the next day and returned to her family.
3. While Laurie was held captive, Bic and Opal called her by the name of Lee.

Answer: True

Bic had fallen in love with Lee, which both scared Opal and made her jealous. He visited many hideous tortures onto Lee, including rape and killing her pet chicken. He believed she belonged to him, and never forgot her. Lee was not the only name Laurie acquired while in the clutches of Bic and Opal. She also developed several alter personalities to save her sanity.
4. Laurie's older sister Sarah grew up to work as this profession.

Answer: Prosecutor

Sarah was a prosecutor who took such rewards from her work that she stated she would never switch sides for the money. She had to quit working for the DA's office in order to defend her sister after Laurie was arrested for murder. She switched sides for love.
5. After the sudden death of Laurie and Sarah's parents, Laurie was pressured to start seeing a psychiatrist. What was his name?

Answer: Dr. Carpenter

Dr. Carpenter was the first to witness the emergence of Laurie's alters. They had remained hidden after her return home at age six. Laurie had felt at home and no longer needed to the rely on her alters to stay sane. After her parents died in a auto accident, they re-emerged due to that stresser.

They came out subtly at first, with Dr. Carpenter seeing changes in voice tone, body language and demeanor and attitude. He recommended to Sarah that Laurie also start seeing Dr. Justin Connelly, a specialist in multiple personalty disorder.

The term multiple personality disorder was later changed to dissociative identity disorder.
6. Which of Laurie's alters was sending love letters to her professor, Allan Grant?

Answer: Leona

Leona was a young woman who Laurie had channeled all of her sexuality into. Laurie herself couldn't express a normal young woman's sexuality, as her only sexual experience had been of pain and shame. Laurie deeply admired Professor Grant, but Leona stalked him.

She watched him in his home as he ate, read and watched TV. Grant's wife lived in New York City during the weeks and some weekends, so he was alone during the school week. He began receiving letters from the mysterious Leona, but didn't report them until his wife Karen discovered them.

It did not take him long to figure out who the sender was, due to Leona using Laurie's old typewriter.
7. Retired prosecution detective Brendon Moody decided to help out Sarah in her quest to prove Laurie's innocence.

Answer: True

The case against Laurie was mighty damning. She (or an alter) had awoken covered in the dead man's blood and attempted to clean it all up. A knife taken from the Kenyon home by Opal was the murder weapon. Opal had visited the Kenyon home via a real estate agent at Bic's insistence.

He wanted to scare "Lee", to remind her she must never tell anything. Laurie had actually repressed all memory of her abduction years after returning home, and all Bic and Opal did was serve to awaken the alters who did remember. Brendon wanted to help Sarah, whom he'd long admired, and Laurie because of all the trauma they'd experienced. If anyone could find Allan Grant's real killer, it would be Brendon.
8. Bic and Opal returned to Laurie's home area many years later with new identities. He was a preacher and she was a preacher's wife. What were their new names?

Answer: Bobby and Carla Hawkins

Immediately after abandoning Lee at the small town school, Bic and Opal radically changed their appearances. Many years later, Bobby Hawkins had made his way up as a charismatic preacher who had to relocate regularly when kids complained to their parents about his wandering hands. Bobby was able to secure an affluent position on a religious talk show called Church of the Airways, after the sudden death of its aging orator.

The man had been a saint, practically, and hadn't wanted Bobby Hawkins taking his job.

The show was aired in the area of the Kenyon sisters' lives (New York and New Jersey), making Bic (Bobby) more obsessed with scaring his 'Lee' and all the while still pining to be with her.
9. Of all of Laurie's alternate personalities, only one held all of the missing time from her abduction. It was a little boy, about nine years old, named what?

Answer: Lee

Of course it would be Lee! Lee was a boy's name, to Laurie anyway, and it was the first time she was appointed a new identity before she split herself into many more. Lee was the secret keeper, and remained in the background until outed to Dr. Donnelly by alter Kate. Kate was the 33 year old bodyguard that more or less represented Sarah Kenyon. Lee did not even speak until Sarah said the word "opal" during Laurie's session.

He claimed it was one of the forbidden words. It was essential to have Lee come forth more, in the hopes of learning the truth behind Allan Grant's murder.
10. Who turned out to be Allan Grant's murderer?

Answer: Karen, his wife

Between the slip-ups Bic made when he had Thomasina Perkins onstage, Brendon Moody's dogged determination, Lee holding Laurie's scariest moments, a thorough magazine reporter, Karen Grant's boss verifying she had time to be at the crime scene and the smoking bracelet found on Laurie at her arrest, all the mysteries were revealed! Allan had told Karen on the night of his murder he was done with their marriage.

She had a lover named Edwin, and he was in love with his colleague, Vera West. Karen tried to use her boss as her alibi, but the old lady finally admitted Karen had left her alone and sleeping at the airport that night. Karen came home and found Laurie's bag with the stolen kitchen knife alongside the bed, and used the knife to kill her husband.

She stood to inherit a fortune from his estate that would not have been shared assets in a divorce. After Laurie was released from her prior guilty plea, Bic decided he had to kill her to free himself of temptation. He tricked her into coming to his home (her former residence), but everyone else had figured out the truth in time to rush after her.

In the end, Brendon Moody shot Bic through the throat to save both Sarah and Laurie. After the saga of the "knife", Laurie and her boyfriend Gregg went to California to finish their educations together. And, Justin Donnelly and Sarah were left to keep each other company.
Source: Author Gamemaster1967

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