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

2. How does Zlata respond when asked if she is Croatian, Muslim or Serbian?
(a) She says that she is Muslim.
(b) She says that she is Serbian.
(c) She says that she is Croatian.
(d) She says that she is a human being.

3. How is money raised to get the students to college?
(a) A nonprofit organization is created.
(b) Basketball tournaments.
(c) Sell the rights to their diaries.
(d) Concerts.

4. 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.

5. What does a student want to tell a prisoner in West Virginia?
(a) To think how he can be an influence even though he is in jail.
(b) To write an apology letter to the family of the man he murdered.
(c) To be on good behavior so he can get out soon.
(d) That he must tell the judge he is innocent so he can be with his daughter.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Cheryl Best inspire a student?

2. Who helps Gruwell get permission to teach the seniors?

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

4. How does a mother of a student die of shortly before her Christmas Eve birthday?

5. Why is it difficult for some students to take the SATs?

(see the answer key)

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