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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why is the student in Diary Three at Wilson?
(a) The student is expelled from their old school.
(b) Wilson is the closest school to the student's home.
(c) It is either Wilson or boot camp.
(d) The student's parents arrange a transfer.

3. How difficult is it for a student at Wilson to buy a gun?
(a) It is as easy as buying bubble gum.
(b) Difficult, because a gun is very expensive.
(c) Very difficult.
(d) It is impossible; no one sells a student a gun.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How far do two students go to be accepted into a gang and a sorority?

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

3. What event caused 168 innocent men, women and children to die?

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

5. What incident made Schindler try to save every Jew he could?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does one student feel like Cinderella after a dinner at the Century City Marriott?

2. Describe what happens when a student is in a liquor store buying candy?

3. As described in Chapter 1, why does a student get a gun to protect him/herself?

4. Who is Miep Gies?

5. Why did Zlata begin writing a diary and how did her diary evolve?

6. Why does a student transfer from the Distinguished Scholars program to Gruwell's class?

7. What does Zlata mean when she says we cannot erase evil from the world, but can change the way we deal with it?

8. Why is a student excited to meet a Japanese man who was in an internment camp during World War I?

9. In Diary Two, why does a student wonder why he is in Gruwell's English class?

10. Why is the summer before the sophomore year the worst ever for one student?

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