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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter II, Freshman Year - Spring 1995.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is another word for 'odd' according to one of the students?
(a) Peculiar.
(b) Gruwell.
(c) Different.
(d) Sharaud.

2. What does one student compare in his/her life to the Peanut Game?
(a) Not being pretty.
(b) Having a disfiguring scar.
(c) Not being handsome.
(d) Being overweight.

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

4. When did Zlata begin writing her diary?
(a) Before the war in Bosnia began.
(b) Three days before the war ended.
(c) After the war began in Bosnia.
(d) When the war ended.

5. What important lesson does one student learn during her freshman year?
(a) That Gruwell is an extraordinary teacher.
(b) That school can be interesting.
(c) How to study.
(d) People do change.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Gruwell compare the Capulets and Montagues in Romeo and Juliet?

2. What does Zlata have in common with the students?

3. Who goes with Zlata to meet the students?

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

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

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