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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter III, Sophomore Year - Fall 1995.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is the student in Diary Three at Wilson?
(a) The student's parents arrange a transfer.
(b) Wilson is the closest school to the student's home.
(c) The student is expelled from their old school.
(d) It is either Wilson or boot camp.

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

3. 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.

4. Why is Gruwell frustrated at the beginning of Spring, 1995 semester?
(a) The school board does not allow field trips.
(b) The principal has new restrictions.
(c) There is one ordeal after the other from race riots to walkouts.
(d) She is not allowed to stay after school.

5. In the fall of 1995, where is home for a student and his mother who are evicted from their apartment?
(a) His church.
(b) Room 203.
(c) At his aunt's house.
(d) Room 407.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are some students not allowed to go to the Medieval Times Restaurant?

2. What does a student remember after reading about women being molested in Bosnia?

3. After reading Romeo and Juliet, why does a student realize she is not as in love with her boyfriend as she thinks she is?

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

5. Why can most of the class relate to the main character in the book Durango Street?

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