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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 does Zlata have in common with the students?
(a) They all have seen war.
(b) They are teenagers.
(c) They have all lost parents.
(d) They like the same rock bands.

2. Why does one student call the story "The Last Spin" a trip?
(a) It is a very funny story.
(b) The student has never heard of the Montagues and Capulets before.
(c) This student has never before read anything in school that related to everyday life.
(d) It is a very unbelievable story.

3. What did Zlata's diary become?
(a) A list of all the atrocities of the war.
(b) A way to get out of doing schoolwork.
(c) A type of therapy to deal with everything that was going on with the war.
(d) A way to communicate with her friends.

4. Why does Gruwell throw out her carefully planned lessons in the fall of 1994?
(a) The students are not smart enough to handle the work.
(b) None of the students know what the Holocaust is.
(c) The lessons are not appropriate for the class.
(d) The lessons are geared toward white middle class students.

5. Why can most of the class relate to the main character in the book Durango Street?
(a) Because either they, a family member, or a friend has been in jail.
(b) Because they are the same race as the main character.
(c) Because the character dislikes school also.
(d) Because the character has a preppy school teacher also.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Gruwell student teaching?

2. How difficult is it for a student at Wilson to buy a gun?

3. Why is Gruwell not allowed to teach Sharaud and his classmates the following year?

4. How far do two students go to be accepted into a gang and a sorority?

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

(see the answer key)

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