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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. Why can most of the class relate to the main character in the book Durango Street?
(a) Because they are the same race as the main character.
(b) Because the character dislikes school also.
(c) Because either they, a family member, or a friend has been in jail.
(d) Because the character has a preppy school teacher also.

2. Where does Gruwell student teaching?
(a) Williams High School.
(b) Newport Beach High School.
(c) A high school in Los Angeles.
(d) Wilson High School.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How do many of the Wilson High Students get to school each day?

2. Why does Gruwell throw out her carefully planned lessons in the fall of 1994?

3. In what kind of neighborhood is Wilson High School located?

4. How old is Zlata when she speaks to the students?

5. What good came out of Zlata's bad situation?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does a student decide 'odd' is not a three-letter word, but a seven-letter word?

4. Why are some students not allowed to go to Medieval Times?

5. Because of the Read-a-Thon for Tolerance, why is Zlata invited to speak to the class?

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

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

8. Who is Miep Gies?

9. What do the students do when they play the peanut game?

10. What does Zlata think about the situation in Kosovo?

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