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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What good came out of Zlata's bad situation?
(a) She is now able to travel.
(b) She was able to become a famous writer.
(c) She was given some influence in the world.
(d) She was able to finish school.

2. Why does the class split up their junior year?
(a) Other teachers are saying Gruwell doesn't haven't enough seniority to pick students.
(b) Gruwell may be leaving.
(c) The school board is not happy with Gruwell's methods.
(d) The principal wants to split up the class.

3. Why does Gruwell almost take another job the fall of 1995?
(a) The apathy of her students.
(b) The attitudes of the other teachers.
(c) The students' behavior last year.
(d) The attitudes of the principal and school board.

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

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

6. In her thank you letter, what does Zlata tell the students not to forget?
(a) The strength and power to do things is in them.
(b) She keeps in touch by writing.
(c) To keep reading about heroes.
(d) To raise money for Bosnia.

7. After reading Zlata's Diary, what does the class want to do?
(a) Write diaries.
(b) Go to Europe.
(c) Go see Schindler's List.
(d) Invite Zlata to come speak to the class.

8. Why can't a student go to a movie with her best friend?
(a) They don't have any money.
(b) The movie is rated R.
(c) Because the friend is white.
(d) They can't go without an adult chaperone.

9. Why are the diaries written anonymously?
(a) The school board says the students have to remain anonymous.
(b) To protect the students and show the universality of their experiences.
(c) The students are embarassed of their writing.
(d) The principal insisted that the students remain anonymous.

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

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

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

13. What does one student realize after playing the Peanut Game?
(a) People can't live in harmony because they won't accept each other's skin color or beliefs.
(b) Grwell makes some very odd comparisons to everyday life.
(c) People are different because of their experiences in life.
(d) Gruwell has an interesting way of looking at life.

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

15. To what does Gruwell compare the Capulets and Montagues in Romeo and Juliet?
(a) The preppy students and the Asian students.
(b) The Black and Hispanic gangs in Long Beach.
(c) The Black and Asian gangs in Long Beach.
(d) The Latino and Asian gangs in Long Beach.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why is the student in Diary Three at Wilson?

3. Why does one student apologize in Diary 50?

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

5. What makes studying Camelot and King Arthur more interesting for the students?

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