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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 Sharaud's goal when he arrives in Gruwell's class?
(a) Drop out of school.
(b) Make his preppy student teacher cry.
(c) Do well in his studies.
(d) Play basketball.

2. What are two books mentioned in the forward that the students read in class?
(a) The Great Depression: A Diary and The Adderall Diaries.
(b) Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, and Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo.
(c) The Reagan Diaries and The Heroin Diaries.
(d) The Royal Diaries and I Will Bear Witness.

3. In Diary One, how long does the student give Gruwell before she quits?
(a) Two weeks.
(b) One day.
(c) Three days.
(d) A month.

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

5. What does Gruwell tell the student with a 0.5 GPA?
(a) She believes in her.
(b) That the student has to repeat the class next year.
(c) That the student will never graduate.
(d) That she can tutor the student over the summer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Gruwell student teaching?

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

3. What does one student realize after playing the Peanut Game?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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