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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the fall of 1995, where is home for a student and his mother who are evicted from their apartment?
(a) Room 203.
(b) Room 407.
(c) At his aunt's house.
(d) His church.

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

3. Who goes with Zlata to meet the students?
(a) No one, Zlata goes alone.
(b) Zlata's parents and her best friend, Mirna.
(c) Zlata's teacher.
(d) Zlata grandparents.

4. In Diary Six, how does a student lose many of his friends?
(a) The friends are put in juvenile dentention.
(b) Because the friends don't want to see the student any more.
(c) The friends drop out of school.
(d) In an undeclared war.

5. What is a four-letter word not in the students' vocabulary, according to Gruwell their sophomore year?
(a) Work.
(b) Give.
(c) Hope.
(d) Nice.

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

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

8. What incident made Schindler try to save every Jew he could?
(a) Losing a favorite employee.
(b) Finding the body of a little girl with other dead bodies waiting to be burned.
(c) Losing a good friend.
(d) Seeing Jews herded into cattle cars.

9. When did Zlata begin writing her diary?
(a) After the war began in Bosnia.
(b) Before the war in Bosnia began.
(c) When the war ended.
(d) Three days before the war ended.

10. What are two books about teens in crisis that are read the fall of 1995?
(a) Twelve Angry Men and Durango Street.
(b) The Wave and Night.
(c) Durango Street and Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.
(d) To Kill a Mockingbird and Catcher in the Rye.

11. What are two books mentioned in the forward that the students read in class?
(a) Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, and Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo.
(b) The Great Depression: A Diary and The Adderall Diaries.
(c) The Royal Diaries and I Will Bear Witness.
(d) The Reagan Diaries and The Heroin Diaries.

12. What event does Gruwell say puts some teachers at Wilson High over the edge?
(a) When Gruwell's class puts on a play.
(b) When Gruwell's class is invited to meet Spielberg.
(c) When Gruwell's class goes to the school board.
(d) When Gruwell's class startes getting good grades.

13. How far do two students go to be accepted into a gang and a sorority?
(a) They deface school property.
(b) They kill someone.
(c) One student is beaten until bones are broken and another student is humiliated.
(d) They beat someone up.

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

15. What does a student remember after reading about women being molested in Bosnia?
(a) How she was raped.
(b) How her father molested her.
(c) How her father's friend molested her.
(d) How her uncle molested her.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does one student have to be out of school for a week or two and miss the beginning of the sophomore year?

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

3. What types of students attend Wilson High?

4. Why did Zlata start writing a diary?

5. The beginning of the sophomore year, what does a transfer student wish Gruwell is like?

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