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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 amazes a student about the bathrooms at the Century City Marriott?
(a) There is a bathroom for whites and one for other races.
(b) You have to pay a quarter to use the bathroom.
(c) The bathrooms have real towels, no trash on the floor, and no stall doors missing.
(d) There is an attendant in the bathroom.

2. What happens to Teres's father?
(a) He is shoved in front of a train.
(b) He is killed in a drive-by shooting.
(c) He overdoses on crack.
(d) He is shot in the head.

3. To what does Gruwell compare the Capulets and Montagues in Romeo and Juliet?
(a) The Latino and Asian gangs in Long Beach.
(b) The Black and Asian gangs in Long Beach.
(c) The Black and Hispanic gangs in Long Beach.
(d) The preppy students and the Asian students.

4. When the students are speaking at an elementary school, what icebreaker question brings nearly everyone forward?
(a) "Who has had a family member murdered?"
(b) "Who has heard of Anne Frank?"
(c) "Has anyone seen someone get shot before?"
(d) "Who only has one parent?"

5. After reading Romeo and Juliet, why does a student realize she is not as in love with her boyfriend as she thinks she is?
(a) Because she is becoming interested in another guy.
(b) Because she sees things in him she does not like.
(c) Because she can never stab herself over a guy.
(d) Because she does not want to see him as often.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the only kind of heroes one 15-year-old is familiar with before reading about Anne Frank?

2. What does one student compare in his/her life to the Peanut Game?

3. What does one student realize after meeting the diversity panelists?

4. What is so special about the buses students rode in with Zlata and Mirna?

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

(see the answer key)

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