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

2. Why are the diaries written anonymously?
(a) To protect the students and show the universality of their experiences.
(b) The principal insisted that the students remain anonymous.
(c) The school board says the students have to remain anonymous.
(d) The students are embarassed of their writing.

3. What are the students inspired to do after reading the diaries?
(a) Write a screenplay.
(b) Quit school.
(c) Talk to their parents about improving their lives.
(d) Write their own diaries.

4. Why is Gruwell not allowed to teach Sharaud and his classmates the following year?
(a) She doesn't have enough seniority.
(b) She asks to be transferred to a different class.
(c) She does not do a very good job of teaching.
(d) She is going to a different high school.

5. To what does Gruwell compare the Capulets and Montagues in Romeo and Juliet?
(a) The Black and Hispanic gangs in Long Beach.
(b) The preppy students and the Asian students.
(c) The Black and Asian gangs in Long Beach.
(d) The Latino and Asian gangs in Long Beach.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to a student when she runs away with her boyfriend?

2. Why is the student in Diary Three at Wilson?

3. What is Sharaud's goal when he arrives in Gruwell's class?

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

5. When Renee Firestone, a Holocaust survivor, asked a Gestapo agent if she could see her family again, what did she learn?

(see the answer key)

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