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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. Since war also came to Kosovo, what did almost all young Yugoslavians know?
(a) How to get out of the country.
(b) How to write diaries.
(c) What a bomb sounded like and what it was like to have no home.
(d) How to protect themselves.

2. To what does Gruwell compare the Capulets and Montagues in Romeo and Juliet?
(a) The preppy students and the Asian students.
(b) The Black and Asian gangs in Long Beach.
(c) The Latino and Asian gangs in Long Beach.
(d) The Black and Hispanic gangs in Long Beach.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the students inspired to do after reading the diaries?

2. How old is Zlata when she speaks to the students?

3. What are Zlata and one of the students both wearing when they meet?

4. What feelings does Zlata have when asked to write the forward?

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

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