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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter IV, Sophomore Year - Spring 1996.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What event does Gruwell say puts some teachers at Wilson High over the edge?
(a) When Gruwell's class puts on a play.
(b) When Gruwell's class is invited to meet Spielberg.
(c) When Gruwell's class goes to the school board.
(d) When Gruwell's class startes getting good grades.

2. Who goes with Zlata to meet the students?
(a) Zlata grandparents.
(b) Zlata's teacher.
(c) No one, Zlata goes alone.
(d) Zlata's parents and her best friend, Mirna.

3. Why is Tommy's father surprised when Gruwell calls him?
(a) A teacher never calls him before.
(b) Most teachers do not bother to keep parents informed.
(c) He thinks Tommy is doing well in school.
(d) Teachers doesn't usually call to say Tommy is doing well.

4. What good came out of Zlata's bad situation?
(a) She was able to become a famous writer.
(b) She was able to finish school.
(c) She is now able to travel.
(d) She was given some influence in the world.

5. When Renee Firestone, a Holocaust survivor, asked a Gestapo agent if she could see her family again, what did she learn?
(a) She could be reunited with her family in the crematorium.
(b) Her family was transferred to another camp.
(c) Her parents were dead, but her siblings were in Renee's barracks.
(d) Her father was dead, but her mother was in Renee's barracks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does a student who is a "goodie two shoes" do when shopping with her parents?

2. What does one student do during a "three-week vacation" from school the spring of the freshman year?

3. How does one student testify at a murder trial?

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

5. What happened to one student before emigrating to the United States from Peru?

(see the answer key)

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