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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. Why is the student in Diary Three at Wilson?
(a) The student is expelled from their old school.
(b) Wilson is the closest school to the student's home.
(c) The student's parents arrange a transfer.
(d) It is either Wilson or boot camp.

2. Who are Jopie and Lies?
(a) Anne Frank's aunt and uncle.
(b) Children from the family that hid the Franks during the war.
(c) Anne's best friends from school before the war.
(d) Anne Frank's parents.

3. Why does a teacher say they do not read black literature in class?
(a) Because it all has sex, fornication, drugs, and cussing.
(b) Because there isn't time.
(c) Because there aren't any good black writers.
(d) Because the teacher prefers to read literature by Hispanics.

4. How do many of the Wilson High Students get to school each day?
(a) They ride bikes.
(b) They walk.
(c) They take 2-3 buses.
(d) Their parents drive them.

5. What types of students attend Wilson High?
(a) Mostly blacks.
(b) Mostly hispanics.
(c) Rich kids and poor kids from the projects.
(d) Mostly caucasian students.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does one student say when she compares her father to John Tu?

2. What happens when a student gives her/himself an F?

3. Why does Gruwell throw out her carefully planned lessons in the fall of 1994?

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

5. Why does Gruwell feel guilty when she drives students home if they stay late after school?

(see the answer key)

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