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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 does Gruwell throw out her carefully planned lessons in the fall of 1994?
(a) The students are not smart enough to handle the work.
(b) The lessons are not appropriate for the class.
(c) None of the students know what the Holocaust is.
(d) The lessons are geared toward white middle class students.

2. Why doesn't Gruwell take another teaching job in the fall of 1995?
(a) The teachers beg her to stay at Wilson High.
(b) She realizes her hypocrisy.
(c) Other jobs do not pay as well as Wilson High.
(d) She cannot find another position.

3. What does a student compare O.J. Simpson's trial to?
(a) A trial where the student is a witness.
(b) The student's mother's trial for murder.
(c) The trial of the student's brother for murder.
(d) The Oklahoma City bombing.

4. How does Zlata respond when asked if she is Croatian, Muslim or Serbian?
(a) She says that she is Croatian.
(b) She says that she is Serbian.
(c) She says that she is a human being.
(d) She says that she is Muslim.

5. How is money raised for a trip to Washington, D.C.?
(a) A bake sale.
(b) Donations from wealthy donors.
(c) A concert.
(d) A basketball game.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is so special about the buses students rode in with Zlata and Mirna?

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

3. How difficult is it for a student at Wilson to buy a gun?

4. What does a student talk about at the diversity seminar?

5. To what does Gruwell compare the Capulets and Montagues in Romeo and Juliet?

(see the answer key)

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