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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. How does Gruwell get money for new books, guest speakers, and field trips?
(a) She also works at the Marriott Hotel and Norstroms.
(b) The students and their parents pay.
(c) Private donors.
(d) Gruwell has a trust fund.

2. In Diary Six, how does a student lose many of his friends?
(a) In an undeclared war.
(b) The friends are put in juvenile dentention.
(c) The friends drop out of school.
(d) Because the friends don't want to see the student any more.

3. What happens to a student's friends a year ago, when the student was a freshman?
(a) Killed in a gang fight.
(b) Put in prison.
(c) Killed trying to commit a robbery.
(d) Sent to juvenile hall.

4. Where does Gruwell student teaching?
(a) Wilson High School.
(b) Williams High School.
(c) A high school in Los Angeles.
(d) Newport Beach High School.

5. What amazes a student about the bathrooms at the Century City Marriott?
(a) There is an attendant in the bathroom.
(b) There is a bathroom for whites and one for other races.
(c) The bathrooms have real towels, no trash on the floor, and no stall doors missing.
(d) You have to pay a quarter to use the bathroom.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does one student call the story "The Last Spin" a trip?

2. Who is the teacher of the students at Wilson High School?

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

4. In Diary One, how long does the student give Gruwell before she quits?

5. In the fall of 1995, where is home for a student and his mother who are evicted from their apartment?

(see the answer key)

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