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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Gruwell has an interesting way of looking at life.
(c) People are different because of their experiences in life.
(d) Grwell makes some very odd comparisons to everyday life.

2. When does Zlata meet the students of Wilson High School?
(a) March, 2006.
(b) March, 1996.
(c) December, 1997.
(d) September, 1998.

3. What do some of the teachers call Gruwell?
(a) A great teacher.
(b) A Prima Donna.
(c) A brown noser.
(d) A troublemaker.

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

5. What are Zlata and one of the students both wearing when they meet?
(a) Aeropostale Ts.
(b) Doc Martens.
(c) Gap sweatshirts.
(d) Abercrombie & Fitch jeans.

6. Why is Gruwell frustrated at the beginning of Spring, 1995 semester?
(a) She is not allowed to stay after school.
(b) The principal has new restrictions.
(c) The school board does not allow field trips.
(d) There is one ordeal after the other from race riots to walkouts.

7. What important lesson does one student learn during her freshman year?
(a) That Gruwell is an extraordinary teacher.
(b) That school can be interesting.
(c) How to study.
(d) People do change.

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

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

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

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

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

13. In what kind of neighborhood is Wilson High School located?
(a) Near downtown Los Angeles.
(b) In a gated community.
(c) Near the projects.
(d) A safe neighborhood near the ocean.

14. Why is Tommy's father surprised when Gruwell calls him?
(a) Most teachers do not bother to keep parents informed.
(b) He thinks Tommy is doing well in school.
(c) Teachers doesn't usually call to say Tommy is doing well.
(d) A teacher never calls him before.

15. What is the perfect Cinderella story for one student?
(a) To be prom queen.
(b) To have a date for the prom.
(c) To have her father be a dad.
(d) To have a boyfriend like John Tu.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the only kind of heroes one 15-year-old is familiar with before reading about Anne Frank?

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

3. In the spring of 1995, who offers to help take the students on a field trip?

4. Why did Zlata start writing a diary?

5. Why doesn't Gruwell take another teaching job in the fall of 1995?

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