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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 do many of the Wilson High Students get to school each day?
(a) They ride bikes.
(b) Their parents drive them.
(c) They walk.
(d) They take 2-3 buses.

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

3. Why is Gruwell frustrated at the beginning of Spring, 1995 semester?
(a) She is not allowed to stay after school.
(b) The principal has new restrictions.
(c) The school board does not allow field trips.
(d) There is one ordeal after the other from race riots to walkouts.

4. Why can't a student go to a movie with her best friend?
(a) Because the friend is white.
(b) They can't go without an adult chaperone.
(c) They don't have any money.
(d) The movie is rated R.

5. In Chapter V, to where does a student take a road trip with her friends?
(a) Mexico.
(b) Las Vegas.
(c) San Francisco.
(d) Los Angeles.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Zlata when she speaks to the students?

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

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

4. In what kind of neighborhood is Wilson High School located?

5. What is different about rooming arrangements when the Freedom Writers go to New York?

(see the answer key)

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