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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) That school can be interesting.
(b) That Gruwell is an extraordinary teacher.
(c) People do change.
(d) How to study.

2. Who are the "Dream Team Moms"?
(a) Mothers who adopt the class as their kids.
(b) Mothers of the football players.
(c) Mothers of the basketball players.
(d) Mothers who bake cookies for teachers.

3. Why can't a student go to a movie with her best friend?
(a) They can't go without an adult chaperone.
(b) They don't have any money.
(c) Because the friend is white.
(d) The movie is rated R.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Why does a student's mother usually get twice as many presents on Christmas Eve as everyone else?

5. What Christmas song is twisted during a sorority hazing?

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