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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. What good came out of Zlata's bad situation?
(a) She was able to become a famous writer.
(b) She was able to finish school.
(c) She is now able to travel.
(d) She was given some influence in the world.

2. What event caused 168 innocent men, women and children to die?
(a) An airplane crash.
(b) An earthquake.
(c) Oklahoma City bombing.
(d) Race riots.

3. Why do the students and Gruwell have to climb out the window of the school one night?
(a) Because they are not supposed to be in the building after hours.
(b) That is how they get into the school.
(c) So the alarms don't go off.
(d) Because there is a gang fight outside the front door.

4. What does a student remember after reading about women being molested in Bosnia?
(a) How her uncle molested her.
(b) How her father molested her.
(c) How she was raped.
(d) How her father's friend molested her.

5. Why is a student amazed at being chosen to speak in front of Barbara Boxer, their senator?
(a) Because the student has done some very outrageous things over the years.
(b) The student is deaf and speaks with sign language.
(c) The student has a speech impediment.
(d) The student does not have good grades.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Gruwell throw out her carefully planned lessons in the fall of 1994?

3. Whose album cover does the class analyze?

4. Why is Gruwell frustrated at the beginning of Spring, 1995 semester?

5. How does Zlata respond when asked if she is Croatian, Muslim or Serbian?

(see the answer key)

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