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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 do Gruwell and the students raise money for food and medical supplies for Bosnian kids?
(a) A bake sale.
(b) A chili supper.
(c) A basketball tournament.
(d) Donation jars at stores.

2. What important lesson does one student learn during her freshman year?
(a) How to study.
(b) That school can be interesting.
(c) People do change.
(d) That Gruwell is an extraordinary teacher.

3. What does a student compare O.J. Simpson's trial to?
(a) A trial where the student is a witness.
(b) The student's mother's trial for murder.
(c) The trial of the student's brother for murder.
(d) The Oklahoma City bombing.

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

5. Why doesn't Gruwell take another teaching job in the fall of 1995?
(a) She realizes her hypocrisy.
(b) Other jobs do not pay as well as Wilson High.
(c) The teachers beg her to stay at Wilson High.
(d) She cannot find another position.

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes studying Camelot and King Arthur more interesting for the students?

2. During the diversity seminar, what does a student remember about how his/her brother died during his/her sophomore year?

3. How difficult is it for a student at Wilson to buy a gun?

4. What does Gruwell do the summer of 1996?

5. In the fall of 1995, where is home for a student and his mother who are evicted from their apartment?

(see the answer key)

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