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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 does Zlata have in common with the students?
(a) They like the same rock bands.
(b) They are teenagers.
(c) They have all lost parents.
(d) They all have seen war.

2. Why did Zlata start writing a diary?
(a) Because her teacher assigned diary writing as a school project.
(b) As a place to record her childhood.
(c) Because her grandmother encouraged her to do so.
(d) As a place to keep secrets from her parents.

3. How old is Zlata when she speaks to the students?
(a) Fifteen.
(b) Twenty-one.
(c) Nineteen.
(d) Twelve.

4. Why do the students sign an honor code?
(a) So no one embellishes or sensationalizes their stories.
(b) So there is not any further fighting.
(c) So there is not any further stealing of personal belongings.
(d) So there is not any further cheating on exams.

5. Why is Gruwell frustrated at the beginning of Spring, 1995 semester?
(a) The principal has new restrictions.
(b) The school board does not allow field trips.
(c) She is not allowed to stay after school.
(d) There is one ordeal after the other from race riots to walkouts.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is money raised for a trip to Washington, D.C.?

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

3. Whose album cover does the class analyze?

4. What happens to the fathers of the diversity panelist and the student who are sent to internment camps?

5. What is Sharaud's goal when he arrives in Gruwell's class?

(see the answer key)

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