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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What are Zlata and one of the students both wearing when they meet?
(a) Aeropostale Ts.
(b) Abercrombie & Fitch jeans.
(c) Doc Martens.
(d) Gap sweatshirts.

4. After reading Romeo and Juliet, why does a student realize she is not as in love with her boyfriend as she thinks she is?
(a) Because she is becoming interested in another guy.
(b) Because she does not want to see him as often.
(c) Because she sees things in him she does not like.
(d) Because she can never stab herself over a guy.

5. How does one student testify at a murder trial?
(a) The student tells the truth.
(b) The student lies.
(c) The student confesses to the crime.
(d) The student takes the fifth.

6. Why are some students not allowed to go to the Medieval Times Restaurant?
(a) Their haircuts.
(b) Their attitudes.
(c) Their clothes.
(d) They flunk the test.

7. How far do two students go to be accepted into a gang and a sorority?
(a) They beat someone up.
(b) One student is beaten until bones are broken and another student is humiliated.
(c) They kill someone.
(d) They deface school property.

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

9. What are two books about teens in crisis that are read the fall of 1995?
(a) Durango Street and Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.
(b) Twelve Angry Men and Durango Street.
(c) The Wave and Night.
(d) To Kill a Mockingbird and Catcher in the Rye.

10. Why does one student apologize in Diary 50?
(a) Because the student is taking crystal meth.
(b) Because the student has a fight with a best friend.
(c) Because the student is an alcoholic.
(d) Because the student shoplifts.

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

12. What amazes a student about the bathrooms at the Century City Marriott?
(a) You have to pay a quarter to use the bathroom.
(b) There is an attendant in the bathroom.
(c) The bathrooms have real towels, no trash on the floor, and no stall doors missing.
(d) There is a bathroom for whites and one for other races.

13. Who is coming to speak to the class immediately after Gerda Seifer?
(a) Anne Frank.
(b) Zlata Filipovic.
(c) Steven Spielberg.
(d) Miep Gies.

14. What makes studying Camelot and King Arthur more interesting for the students?
(a) The opportunity to go to the Medieval Times restaurant.
(b) Making swords.
(c) Creating a movie about King Arthur.
(d) Dressing up in medieval costumes.

15. Who are the "Dream Team Moms"?
(a) Mothers of the football players.
(b) Mothers who adopt the class as their kids.
(c) Mothers of the basketball players.
(d) Mothers who bake cookies for teachers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Miep Gies?

2. Why can't a student go to a movie with her best friend?

3. What does one student do during a "three-week vacation" from school the spring of the freshman year?

4. What does Zlata have in common with the students?

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

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