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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter VIII, Senior Year - Spring 1998.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is money raised for a trip to Washington, D.C.?
(a) Donations from wealthy donors.
(b) A basketball game.
(c) A concert.
(d) A bake sale.

2. What poem does a student write after realizing living in the ghetto and having brown skin does not mean you cannot be successful?
(a) They Say, I Say.
(b) Say it Isn't So.
(c) So Say What You Will.
(d) You Say, They Say, We Say.

3. When does Zlata meet the students of Wilson High School?
(a) March, 1996.
(b) December, 1997.
(c) September, 1998.
(d) March, 2006.

4. What does one student do during a "three-week vacation" from school the spring of the freshman year?
(a) Chill and smoke.
(b) Go to jail.
(c) Go to juvenile hall.
(d) Help a sick family member.

5. What happens when a student gives her/himself an F?
(a) The student is sent to the principal's office.
(b) The student is expelled.
(c) The student is dropped from Gruwell's class.
(d) Gruwell gets angry and says that if you fail, I fail.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is money raised to get the students to college?

2. What does a student talk about at the diversity seminar?

3. What article by Peter Maass does a student read his/her sophomore year?

4. What were Rosa Parks and the other blacks called who rode buses to fight racism?

5. Why doesn't Gruwell take another teaching job in the fall of 1995?

(see the answer key)

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