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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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) The bathrooms have real towels, no trash on the floor, and no stall doors missing.
(d) There is a bathroom for whites and one for other races.

4. Why does one student call the story "The Last Spin" a trip?
(a) It is a very unbelievable story.
(b) It is a very funny story.
(c) This student has never before read anything in school that related to everyday life.
(d) The student has never heard of the Montagues and Capulets before.

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

6. Who is Miep Gies?
(a) A friend of Zlata Filipovic.
(b) The woman who kept Anne Frank alive in the attic.
(c) A teacher at Wilson High.
(d) Director of the Museum of Tolerance.

7. Why is the student in Diary Three at Wilson?
(a) It is either Wilson or boot camp.
(b) The student is expelled from their old school.
(c) The student's parents arrange a transfer.
(d) Wilson is the closest school to the student's home.

8. How old is Zlata when she speaks to the students?
(a) Twenty-one.
(b) Twelve.
(c) Fifteen.
(d) Nineteen.

9. What does one student say when she compares her father to John Tu?
(a) That Tu gives her more attention in seven minutes than her dad has in seven years.
(b) Tu is shorter than her father.
(c) Tu is very rude to her.
(d) Tu is taller than her father.

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

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

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

13. What does one student do during a "three-week vacation" from school the spring of the freshman year?
(a) Help a sick family member.
(b) Go to jail.
(c) Go to juvenile hall.
(d) Chill and smoke.

14. Since war also came to Kosovo, what did almost all young Yugoslavians know?
(a) How to protect themselves.
(b) What a bomb sounded like and what it was like to have no home.
(c) How to write diaries.
(d) How to get out of the country.

15. The beginning of the sophomore year, what does a transfer student wish Gruwell is like?
(a) More interesting, like the other teachers.
(b) More concerned about her students.
(c) Less concerned about grades.
(d) Boring like the other teachers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Zlata's homeland?

2. What incident made Schindler try to save every Jew he could?

3. What important lesson does one student learn during her freshman year?

4. What book relates to the life of a student who lives in an interment camp?

5. When did Zlata begin writing her diary?

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