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

2. What does one student compare in his/her life to the Peanut Game?
(a) Not being pretty.
(b) Being overweight.
(c) Not being handsome.
(d) Having a disfiguring scar.

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

4. Why is Gruwell not allowed to teach Sharaud and his classmates the following year?
(a) She does not do a very good job of teaching.
(b) She is going to a different high school.
(c) She asks to be transferred to a different class.
(d) She doesn't have enough seniority.

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 die.
(d) They become abusive and don't care if they hurt their families.

Short Answer Questions

1. What good came out of Zlata's bad situation?

2. Where does Gruwell student teaching?

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

4. What book relates to the life of a student who lives in an interment camp?

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

(see the answer key)

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