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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter V, Junior Year - Fall 1996.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Gruwell do the summer of 1996?
(a) Look for a new job.
(b) Teach at National University and go to Europe.
(c) Teach at Cal State.
(d) Work at Nordstrom's and the Marriott.

2. Who wrote, "Who so should be a man, must be a nonconformist"?
(a) Whitman.
(b) Poe.
(c) Thoreau.
(d) Emerson.

3. What does a student talk about at the diversity seminar?
(a) The student's abusive father.
(b) How a best friend died in a gang war.
(c) The gang the student belongs to.
(d) The books the student has read that influence him.

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

5. What is another word for 'odd' according to one of the students?
(a) Gruwell.
(b) Sharaud.
(c) Different.
(d) Peculiar.

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. How does Gruwell get money for new books, guest speakers, and field trips?

3. In the fall of 1994, why does one student say s/he does not belong in Gruwell's class?

4. Why is one student not able to play sports, climb gym ropes, swing, or do a pull-up?

5. Why does one student call the story "The Last Spin" a trip?

(see the answer key)

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