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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 did Zlata's diary become?
(a) A list of all the atrocities of the war.
(b) A way to communicate with her friends.
(c) A type of therapy to deal with everything that was going on with the war.
(d) A way to get out of doing schoolwork.

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

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

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

5. In the spring of 1995, who offers to help take the students on a field trip?
(a) Other teachers.
(b) Anne Frank.
(c) John Tu.
(d) The principal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Zlata say about Erin Gruwell?

2. Why are the diaries written anonymously?

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

4. What important lesson does one student learn during her freshman year?

5. To what does Gruwell compare the Capulets and Montagues in Romeo and Juliet?

(see the answer key)

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