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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

3. 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 juvenile hall.
(c) Go to jail.
(d) Chill and smoke.

4. In the spring of 1995, who offers to help take the students on a field trip?
(a) The principal.
(b) Anne Frank.
(c) Other teachers.
(d) John Tu.

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

6. When Renee Firestone, a Holocaust survivor, asked a Gestapo agent if she could see her family again, what did she learn?
(a) She could be reunited with her family in the crematorium.
(b) Her father was dead, but her mother was in Renee's barracks.
(c) Her parents were dead, but her siblings were in Renee's barracks.
(d) Her family was transferred to another camp.

7. Why does one student have to be out of school for a week or two and miss the beginning of the sophomore year?
(a) He has to be in juvenile hall.
(b) The student's father dies.
(c) The student's mother dies.
(d) He has to have sinus surgery.

8. What did Zlata's diary become?
(a) A type of therapy to deal with everything that was going on with the war.
(b) A list of all the atrocities of the war.
(c) A way to communicate with her friends.
(d) A way to get out of doing schoolwork.

9. After reading Romeo and Juliet, why does a student realize she is not as in love with her boyfriend as she thinks she is?
(a) Because she sees things in him she does not like.
(b) Because she does not want to see him as often.
(c) Because she is becoming interested in another guy.
(d) Because she can never stab herself over a guy.

10. What event caused 168 innocent men, women and children to die?
(a) Race riots.
(b) Oklahoma City bombing.
(c) An earthquake.
(d) An airplane crash.

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

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

13. Who is the teacher of the students at Wilson High School?
(a) Elise Gonzalez.
(b) Erin Gruwell.
(c) Anne Frank.
(d) Emilie Gridwell.

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

15. Why is one student not able to play sports, climb gym ropes, swing, or do a pull-up?
(a) Because the student broke an arm.
(b) Because the student has asthma.
(c) Because the student has cystic fibrosis.
(d) Because the student is overweight.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does a student remember after reading about women being molested in Bosnia?

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

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

4. According to Zlata, what good came from Anne Frank's tragedy?

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

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