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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 one student realize after playing the Peanut Game?
(a) People are different because of their experiences in life.
(b) Gruwell has an interesting way of looking at life.
(c) Grwell makes some very odd comparisons to everyday life.
(d) People can't live in harmony because they won't accept each other's skin color or beliefs.

2. 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.

3. Where does Gruwell student teaching?
(a) A high school in Los Angeles.
(b) Wilson High School.
(c) Newport Beach High School.
(d) Williams High School.

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

5. What happens to the fathers of the diversity panelist and the student who are sent to internment camps?
(a) They are horribly disfigured.
(b) They lose a limb due to infection.
(c) They become abusive and don't care if they hurt their families.
(d) They die.

Short Answer Questions

1. When one of the juniors was twelve, how did her grandmother die?

2. What is a four-letter word not in the students' vocabulary, according to Gruwell their sophomore year?

3. How does one student testify at a murder trial?

4. In Chapter V, to where does a student take a road trip with her friends?

5. Why does Gruwell almost take another job the fall of 1995?

(see the answer key)

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