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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. How far do two students go to be accepted into a gang and a sorority?
(a) They beat someone up.
(b) They deface school property.
(c) They kill someone.
(d) One student is beaten until bones are broken and another student is humiliated.

2. The beginning of the sophomore year, what does a transfer student wish Gruwell is like?
(a) Less concerned about grades.
(b) More concerned about her students.
(c) More interesting, like the other teachers.
(d) Boring like the other teachers.

3. How does Gruwell get money for new books, guest speakers, and field trips?
(a) Private donors.
(b) She also works at the Marriott Hotel and Norstroms.
(c) Gruwell has a trust fund.
(d) The students and their parents pay.

4. What does Gruwell tell the student with a 0.5 GPA?
(a) That she can tutor the student over the summer.
(b) She believes in her.
(c) That the student will never graduate.
(d) That the student has to repeat the class next year.

5. What is the perfect Cinderella story for one student?
(a) To be prom queen.
(b) To have her father be a dad.
(c) To have a boyfriend like John Tu.
(d) To have a date for the prom.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does a truly self-reliant person do, according to Chapter V?

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

3. What secret is "Little Miss Goodie Goodie" hiding?

4. Why can most of the class relate to the main character in the book Durango Street?

5. What event does Gruwell say puts some teachers at Wilson High over the edge?

(see the answer key)

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