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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter VI, Junior Year - Spring 1997.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the students inspired to do after reading the diaries?
(a) Write a screenplay.
(b) Talk to their parents about improving their lives.
(c) Write their own diaries.
(d) Quit school.

2. After reading Romeo and Juliet, why does a student realize she is not as in love with her boyfriend as she thinks she is?
(a) Because she does not want to see him as often.
(b) Because she sees things in him she does not like.
(c) Because she can never stab herself over a guy.
(d) Because she is becoming interested in another guy.

3. Where is Gruwell the day before the junior year begins?
(a) France.
(b) Newport Beach.
(c) Long Beach.
(d) Dublin.

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

5. The beginning of the sophomore year, what does a transfer student wish Gruwell is like?
(a) More interesting, like the other teachers.
(b) Less concerned about grades.
(c) Boring like the other teachers.
(d) More concerned about her students.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who goes with Zlata to meet the students?

2. Why does Zlata believe it is so important for the Freedom Writers to overcome their circumstances?

3. Why does Gruwell almost take another job the fall of 1995?

4. What does one student realize after playing the Peanut Game?

5. What types of students attend Wilson High?

(see the answer key)

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