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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter VII, Senior Year - Fall 1997.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How difficult is it for a student at Wilson to buy a gun?
(a) It is impossible; no one sells a student a gun.
(b) Difficult, because a gun is very expensive.
(c) It is as easy as buying bubble gum.
(d) Very difficult.

2. What book relates to the life of a student who lives in an interment camp?
(a) Hoop Dreams.
(b) Farewell to Manzanar.
(c) Romeo and Juliet.
(d) Durango Street.

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

4. When Renee Firestone, a Holocaust survivor, asked a Gestapo agent if she could see her family again, what did she learn?
(a) Her father was dead, but her mother was in Renee's barracks.
(b) Her parents were dead, but her siblings were in Renee's barracks.
(c) Her family was transferred to another camp.
(d) She could be reunited with her family in the crematorium.

5. How does Gruwell get money for new books, guest speakers, and field trips?
(a) Private donors.
(b) Gruwell has a trust fund.
(c) She also works at the Marriott Hotel and Norstroms.
(d) The students and their parents pay.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does one student realize after meeting the diversity panelists?

2. In Diary One, how long does the student give Gruwell before she quits?

3. After reading Zlata's Diary, what does the class want to do?

4. What event caused 168 innocent men, women and children to die?

5. In the fall of 1994, why does one student say s/he does not belong in Gruwell's class?

(see the answer key)

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