View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Zlata say about Erin Gruwell?
(a) Gruwell should move on to a different high school.
(b) Gruwell serves as parent, friend, advocate, and teacher.
(c) Gruwell is respected and liked by all her fellow teachers.
(d) Gruwell is lucky to have such a talented group of students.

2. Why can't a student go to a movie with her best friend?
(a) Because the friend is white.
(b) The movie is rated R.
(c) They can't go without an adult chaperone.
(d) They don't have any money.

3. According to Zlata, what is important about what happens to people?
(a) Whether family members are there to help.
(b) Whether people endure emotional crises because of what happened.
(c) Whether people are physically hurt or not.
(d) How people deal with what happens in their lives.

4. How do Gruwell and the students raise money for food and medical supplies for Bosnian kids?
(a) Donation jars at stores.
(b) A bake sale.
(c) A basketball tournament.
(d) A chili supper.

5. What incident made Schindler try to save every Jew he could?
(a) Finding the body of a little girl with other dead bodies waiting to be burned.
(b) Seeing Jews herded into cattle cars.
(c) Losing a good friend.
(d) Losing a favorite employee.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Zlata meet the students of Wilson High School?

2. What does Zlata have in common with the students?

3. Why is one student not able to play sports, climb gym ropes, swing, or do a pull-up?

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

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

(see the answer key)

This section contains 339 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample