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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1, Freshman Year - Fall 1994.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What feelings does Zlata have when asked to write the forward?
(a) Displeased.
(b) Honored, but not interested.
(c) Honored, proud, and amazed.
(d) Frustrated and nervous.

2. How far do two students go to be accepted into a gang and a sorority?
(a) They beat someone up.
(b) They deface school property.
(c) They kill someone.
(d) One student is beaten until bones are broken and another student is humiliated.

3. Where does Gruwell student teaching?
(a) A high school in Los Angeles.
(b) Wilson High School.
(c) Newport Beach High School.
(d) Williams High School.

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 doesn't have enough seniority.
(c) She is going to a different high school.
(d) She asks to be transferred to a different class.

5. What types of students attend Wilson High?
(a) Rich kids and poor kids from the projects.
(b) Mostly caucasian students.
(c) Mostly hispanics.
(d) Mostly blacks.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. According to Zlata, what is important about what happens to people?

5. Why did Zlata start writing a diary?

(see the answer key)

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