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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why are some students not allowed to go to the Medieval Times Restaurant?
(a) Their haircuts.
(b) They flunk the test.
(c) Their clothes.
(d) Their attitudes.

2. What makes studying Camelot and King Arthur more interesting for the students?
(a) Making swords.
(b) The opportunity to go to the Medieval Times restaurant.
(c) Dressing up in medieval costumes.
(d) Creating a movie about King Arthur.

3. What are the students inspired to do after reading the diaries?
(a) Write their own diaries.
(b) Quit school.
(c) Talk to their parents about improving their lives.
(d) Write a screenplay.

4. What happens to a student when she runs away with her boyfriend?
(a) She is homeschooled for awhile.
(b) She is sent to juvenile hall.
(c) Her parents ground her and transfer her to Wilson High.
(d) She goes to live with a relative far away from the boyfriend.

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

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

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

8. What does Zlata say about Erin Gruwell?
(a) Gruwell is lucky to have such a talented group of students.
(b) Gruwell should move on to a different high school.
(c) Gruwell is respected and liked by all her fellow teachers.
(d) Gruwell serves as parent, friend, advocate, and teacher.

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

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

11. What happens to a student's friends a year ago, when the student was a freshman?
(a) Killed in a gang fight.
(b) Put in prison.
(c) Killed trying to commit a robbery.
(d) Sent to juvenile hall.

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

13. What makes Tommy Jefferson, a football player, cry?
(a) The death of a friend.
(b) Anne Frank's experience.
(c) Zlata's experience.
(d) His father's death.

14. What is another word for 'odd' according to one of the students?
(a) Peculiar.
(b) Different.
(c) Gruwell.
(d) Sharaud.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What event does Gruwell say puts some teachers at Wilson High over the edge?

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

3. What did Zlata's diary become?

4. What does Gruwell tell the student with a 0.5 GPA?

5. When does Zlata meet the students of Wilson High School?

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