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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter V, Junior Year - Fall 1996.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened to one student before emigrating to the United States from Peru?
(a) The student was injured in a car bombing.
(b) The student's school was bombed.
(c) The student's father was killed.
(d) The house next door was bombed.

2. What is a four-letter word not in the students' vocabulary, according to Gruwell their sophomore year?
(a) Hope.
(b) Nice.
(c) Work.
(d) Give.

3. What does a student talk about at the diversity seminar?
(a) How a best friend died in a gang war.
(b) The student's abusive father.
(c) The gang the student belongs to.
(d) The books the student has read that influence him.

4. What happens to the fathers of the diversity panelist and the student who are sent to internment camps?
(a) They lose a limb due to infection.
(b) They are horribly disfigured.
(c) They die.
(d) They become abusive and don't care if they hurt their families.

5. The beginning of the sophomore year, what does a transfer student wish Gruwell is like?
(a) More interesting, like the other teachers.
(b) More concerned about her students.
(c) Boring like the other teachers.
(d) Less concerned about grades.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are two books about teens in crisis that are read the fall of 1995?

2. Whose album cover does the class analyze?

3. After reading Romeo and Juliet, why does a student realize she is not as in love with her boyfriend as she thinks she is?

4. What happens to a student's friends a year ago, when the student was a freshman?

5. How does one student testify at a murder trial?

(see the answer key)

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