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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What good came out of Zlata's bad situation?
(a) She is now able to travel.
(b) She was able to finish school.
(c) She was given some influence in the world.
(d) She was able to become a famous writer.

2. What are the only kind of heroes one 15-year-old is familiar with before reading about Anne Frank?
(a) Good teachers.
(b) Gang leaders.
(c) Civil Rights leaders.
(d) Super heroes in tights.

3. Who goes with Zlata to meet the students?
(a) Zlata's parents and her best friend, Mirna.
(b) Zlata grandparents.
(c) Zlata's teacher.
(d) No one, Zlata goes alone.

4. What does one student compare in his/her life to the Peanut Game?
(a) Having a disfiguring scar.
(b) Not being handsome.
(c) Being overweight.
(d) Not being pretty.

5. What are two books mentioned in the forward that the students read in class?
(a) The Great Depression: A Diary and The Adderall Diaries.
(b) Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, and Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo.
(c) The Royal Diaries and I Will Bear Witness.
(d) The Reagan Diaries and The Heroin Diaries.

6. Why is Gruwell not allowed to teach Sharaud and his classmates the following year?
(a) She does not do a very good job of teaching.
(b) She is going to a different high school.
(c) She doesn't have enough seniority.
(d) She asks to be transferred to a different class.

7. What does Gruwell tell the student with a 0.5 GPA?
(a) That she can tutor the student over the summer.
(b) That the student will never graduate.
(c) She believes in her.
(d) That the student has to repeat the class next year.

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

9. Who is the teacher of the students at Wilson High School?
(a) Anne Frank.
(b) Elise Gonzalez.
(c) Erin Gruwell.
(d) Emilie Gridwell.

10. What book relates to the life of a student who lives in an interment camp?
(a) Farewell to Manzanar.
(b) Hoop Dreams.
(c) Romeo and Juliet.
(d) Durango Street.

11. What did Zlata's diary become?
(a) A type of therapy to deal with everything that was going on with the war.
(b) A way to communicate with her friends.
(c) A list of all the atrocities of the war.
(d) A way to get out of doing schoolwork.

12. In the fall of 1995, where is home for a student and his mother who are evicted from their apartment?
(a) Room 407.
(b) Room 203.
(c) At his aunt's house.
(d) His church.

13. What does one student do during a "three-week vacation" from school the spring of the freshman year?
(a) Chill and smoke.
(b) Go to jail.
(c) Help a sick family member.
(d) Go to juvenile hall.

14. Why is Tommy's father surprised when Gruwell calls him?
(a) Teachers doesn't usually call to say Tommy is doing well.
(b) He thinks Tommy is doing well in school.
(c) Most teachers do not bother to keep parents informed.
(d) A teacher never calls him before.

15. What does a student remember after reading about women being molested in Bosnia?
(a) How her uncle molested her.
(b) How her father's friend molested her.
(c) How she was raped.
(d) How her father molested her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the students inspired to do after reading the diaries?

2. Why is the student in Diary Three at Wilson?

3. What feelings does Zlata have when asked to write the forward?

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

5. To what does Gruwell compare the Capulets and Montagues in Romeo and Juliet?

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