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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. In Diary One, how long does the student give Gruwell before she quits?
(a) Two weeks.
(b) A month.
(c) Three days.
(d) One day.

5. What amazes a student about the bathrooms at the Century City Marriott?
(a) You have to pay a quarter to use the bathroom.
(b) There is an attendant in the bathroom.
(c) There is a bathroom for whites and one for other races.
(d) The bathrooms have real towels, no trash on the floor, and no stall doors missing.

6. What does Gruwell tell the student with a 0.5 GPA?
(a) She believes in her.
(b) That the student will never graduate.
(c) That the student has to repeat the class next year.
(d) That she can tutor the student over the summer.

7. What does one student realize after meeting the diversity panelists?
(a) The student does not have anything in common with the diversity panelists.
(b) That anything is possible.
(c) Other people have difficult lives also.
(d) That the panelists overcome many hardships.

8. According to Zlata, what good came from Anne Frank's tragedy?
(a) Anne is responsible for helping to end the war.
(b) Anne never knew what happens to her family.
(c) Anne's strength remains to lead and inspire.
(d) Anne is known all around the world.

9. What is Sharaud's goal when he arrives in Gruwell's class?
(a) Do well in his studies.
(b) Make his preppy student teacher cry.
(c) Drop out of school.
(d) Play basketball.

10. 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) The lessons are geared toward white middle class students.
(d) None of the students know what the Holocaust is.

11. What does one student compare in his/her life to the Peanut Game?
(a) Not being handsome.
(b) Not being pretty.
(c) Being overweight.
(d) Having a disfiguring scar.

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

13. What types of students attend Wilson High?
(a) Mostly blacks.
(b) Mostly caucasian students.
(c) Rich kids and poor kids from the projects.
(d) Mostly hispanics.

14. Why is Gruwell not allowed to teach Sharaud and his classmates the following year?
(a) She is going to a different high school.
(b) She doesn't have enough seniority.
(c) She does not do a very good job of teaching.
(d) She asks to be transferred to a different class.

15. What secret is "Little Miss Goodie Goodie" hiding?
(a) That she is pregnant.
(b) That she is a closet drinker.
(c) That she killed another student.
(d) That she is doing drugs.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who goes with Zlata to meet the students?

2. What are two books mentioned in the forward that the students read in class?

3. In the fall of 1995, where is home for a student and his mother who are evicted from their apartment?

4. What is another word for 'odd' according to one of the students?

5. Why does one student call the story "The Last Spin" a trip?

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