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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. Why can most of the class relate to the main character in the book Durango Street?
(a) Because they are the same race as the main character.
(b) Because the character dislikes school also.
(c) Because either they, a family member, or a friend has been in jail.
(d) Because the character has a preppy school teacher also.

2. Where is Zlata's homeland?
(a) England.
(b) France.
(c) Ireland.
(d) Bosnia.

3. What event caused 168 innocent men, women and children to die?
(a) An airplane crash.
(b) Race riots.
(c) An earthquake.
(d) Oklahoma City bombing.

4. What happens when a student gives her/himself an F?
(a) The student is dropped from Gruwell's class.
(b) The student is sent to the principal's office.
(c) The student is expelled.
(d) Gruwell gets angry and says that if you fail, I fail.

5. During the diversity seminar, what does a student remember about how his/her brother died during his/her sophomore year?
(a) How he died from a knife wound.
(b) How he died from a brain tumor.
(c) How he died from a shooting.
(d) How he died in a car accident.

Short Answer Questions

1. What poem does a student write after realizing living in the ghetto and having brown skin does not mean you cannot be successful?

2. What does a student say after not taking the opportunity to sing to Jopie and Lies?

3. Who helps Gruwell get permission to teach the seniors?

4. What is a four-letter word not in the students' vocabulary, according to Gruwell their sophomore year?

5. Why does the class split up their junior year?

(see the answer key)

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