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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 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 books the student has read that influence him.
(d) The gang the student belongs to.

2. Why does the class split up their junior year?
(a) The principal wants to split up the class.
(b) Gruwell may be leaving.
(c) Other teachers are saying Gruwell doesn't haven't enough seniority to pick students.
(d) The school board is not happy with Gruwell's methods.

3. What do some of the teachers call Gruwell?
(a) A brown noser.
(b) A Prima Donna.
(c) A troublemaker.
(d) A great teacher.

4. What does one student realize after meeting the diversity panelists?
(a) Other people have difficult lives also.
(b) That anything is possible.
(c) The student does not have anything in common with the diversity panelists.
(d) That the panelists overcome many hardships.

5. What event does Gruwell say puts some teachers at Wilson High over the edge?
(a) When Gruwell's class puts on a play.
(b) When Gruwell's class goes to the school board.
(c) When Gruwell's class is invited to meet Spielberg.
(d) When Gruwell's class startes getting good grades.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Zlata respond when asked if she is Croatian, Muslim or Serbian?

2. During the diversity seminar, what does a student remember about how his/her brother died during his/her sophomore year?

3. What is another word for 'odd' according to one of the students?

4. Why are the diaries written anonymously?

5. Who is Miep Gies?

(see the answer key)

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