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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter VII, Senior Year - Fall 1997.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What important lesson does one student learn during her freshman year?
(a) People do change.
(b) That school can be interesting.
(c) How to study.
(d) That Gruwell is an extraordinary teacher.

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

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

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

5. What poem does a student write after realizing living in the ghetto and having brown skin does not mean you cannot be successful?
(a) So Say What You Will.
(b) Say it Isn't So.
(c) You Say, They Say, We Say.
(d) They Say, I Say.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Cheryl Best inspire a student?

2. What road less traveled does a student decide to take Senior year?

3. What happens to a student when she runs away with her boyfriend?

4. How is money raised to get the students to college?

5. When Renee Firestone, a Holocaust survivor, asked a Gestapo agent if she could see her family again, what did she learn?

(see the answer key)

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