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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. What does one student do during a "three-week vacation" from school the spring of the freshman year?
(a) Go to juvenile hall.
(b) Go to jail.
(c) Chill and smoke.
(d) Help a sick family member.

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

3. What does a student remember after reading about women being molested in Bosnia?
(a) How she was raped.
(b) How her father's friend molested her.
(c) How her uncle molested her.
(d) How her father molested her.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why doesn't Gruwell take another teaching job in the fall of 1995?

2. What event does Gruwell say puts some teachers at Wilson High over the edge?

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

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

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