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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Gruwell almost take another job the fall of 1995?
(a) The students' behavior last year.
(b) The attitudes of the other teachers.
(c) The attitudes of the principal and school board.
(d) The apathy of her students.

2. What does one student realize after playing the Peanut Game?
(a) Grwell makes some very odd comparisons to everyday life.
(b) Gruwell has an interesting way of looking at life.
(c) People can't live in harmony because they won't accept each other's skin color or beliefs.
(d) People are different because of their experiences in life.

3. What does Zlata say about Erin Gruwell?
(a) Gruwell should move on to a different high school.
(b) Gruwell serves as parent, friend, advocate, and teacher.
(c) Gruwell is respected and liked by all her fellow teachers.
(d) Gruwell is lucky to have such a talented group of students.

4. What feelings does Zlata have when asked to write the forward?
(a) Honored, but not interested.
(b) Displeased.
(c) Honored, proud, and amazed.
(d) Frustrated and nervous.

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

6. Why doesn't Gruwell take another teaching job in the fall of 1995?
(a) She realizes her hypocrisy.
(b) The teachers beg her to stay at Wilson High.
(c) Other jobs do not pay as well as Wilson High.
(d) She cannot find another position.

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

8. Why is one student not able to play sports, climb gym ropes, swing, or do a pull-up?
(a) Because the student has cystic fibrosis.
(b) Because the student has asthma.
(c) Because the student broke an arm.
(d) Because the student is overweight.

9. What makes Tommy Jefferson, a football player, cry?
(a) The death of a friend.
(b) Zlata's experience.
(c) Anne Frank's experience.
(d) His father's death.

10. According to Zlata, what is important about what happens to people?
(a) Whether people are physically hurt or not.
(b) Whether family members are there to help.
(c) How people deal with what happens in their lives.
(d) Whether people endure emotional crises because of what happened.

11. Why does one student have to be out of school for a week or two and miss the beginning of the sophomore year?
(a) He has to have sinus surgery.
(b) The student's mother dies.
(c) He has to be in juvenile hall.
(d) The student's father dies.

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

13. What is the perfect Cinderella story for one student?
(a) To be prom queen.
(b) To have a boyfriend like John Tu.
(c) To have her father be a dad.
(d) To have a date for the prom.

14. How old is Zlata when she speaks to the students?
(a) Twenty-one.
(b) Nineteen.
(c) Fifteen.
(d) Twelve.

15. When Renee Firestone, a Holocaust survivor, asked a Gestapo agent if she could see her family again, what did she learn?
(a) Her father was dead, but her mother was in Renee's barracks.
(b) She could be reunited with her family in the crematorium.
(c) Her family was transferred to another camp.
(d) Her parents were dead, but her siblings were in Renee's barracks.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Gruwell student teaching?

2. What are two books mentioned in the forward that the students read in class?

3. What makes studying Camelot and King Arthur more interesting for the students?

4. In Diary One, how long does the student give Gruwell before she quits?

5. What secret is "Little Miss Goodie Goodie" hiding?

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