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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter II, Freshman Year - Spring 1995.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Zlata's homeland?
(a) Bosnia.
(b) Ireland.
(c) France.
(d) England.

2. What are two books mentioned in the forward that the students read in class?
(a) The Great Depression: A Diary and The Adderall Diaries.
(b) The Reagan Diaries and The Heroin Diaries.
(c) Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, and Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo.
(d) The Royal Diaries and I Will Bear Witness.

3. Why did Zlata start writing a diary?
(a) As a place to record her childhood.
(b) As a place to keep secrets from her parents.
(c) Because her teacher assigned diary writing as a school project.
(d) Because her grandmother encouraged her to do so.

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

5. What does one student say when she compares her father to John Tu?
(a) Tu is shorter than her father.
(b) That Tu gives her more attention in seven minutes than her dad has in seven years.
(c) Tu is very rude to her.
(d) Tu is taller than her father.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the spring of 1995, who offers to help take the students on a field trip?

2. When does Zlata meet the students of Wilson High School?

3. Why is Gruwell not allowed to teach Sharaud and his classmates the following year?

4. What are the students inspired to do after reading the diaries?

5. Why is the student in Diary Three at Wilson?

(see the answer key)

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