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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 happens to a student when she runs away with her boyfriend?
(a) She is homeschooled for awhile.
(b) She goes to live with a relative far away from the boyfriend.
(c) She is sent to juvenile hall.
(d) Her parents ground her and transfer her to Wilson High.

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

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

4. Why is Gruwell frustrated at the beginning of Spring, 1995 semester?
(a) The principal has new restrictions.
(b) The school board does not allow field trips.
(c) She is not allowed to stay after school.
(d) There is one ordeal after the other from race riots to walkouts.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes Tommy Jefferson, a football player, cry?

2. What happens to Teres's father?

3. What happened to one student before emigrating to the United States from Peru?

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

5. How do Gruwell and the students raise money for food and medical supplies for Bosnian kids?

(see the answer key)

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