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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What feelings does Zlata have when asked to write the forward?
(a) Frustrated and nervous.
(b) Honored, proud, and amazed.
(c) Honored, but not interested.
(d) Displeased.

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

4. How does Zlata respond when asked if she is Croatian, Muslim or Serbian?
(a) She says that she is Serbian.
(b) She says that she is Croatian.
(c) She says that she is a human being.
(d) She says that she is Muslim.

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

6. What does a student compare O.J. Simpson's trial to?
(a) The Oklahoma City bombing.
(b) A trial where the student is a witness.
(c) The trial of the student's brother for murder.
(d) The student's mother's trial for murder.

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

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

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

10. 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.

11. How does one student testify at a murder trial?
(a) The student tells the truth.
(b) The student takes the fifth.
(c) The student confesses to the crime.
(d) The student lies.

12. What happened to one student before emigrating to the United States from Peru?
(a) The student's school was bombed.
(b) The student's father was killed.
(c) The house next door was bombed.
(d) The student was injured in a car bombing.

13. What are two books mentioned in the forward that the students read in class?
(a) The Reagan Diaries and The Heroin Diaries.
(b) Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, and Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo.
(c) The Great Depression: A Diary and The Adderall Diaries.
(d) The Royal Diaries and I Will Bear Witness.

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

15. In the fall of 1994, why does one student say s/he does not belong in Gruwell's class?
(a) Because the student is Latino.
(b) Because there is a mix up in the schedule.
(c) Because the student is white.
(d) Because the student's test scores are high.

Short Answer Questions

1. In her thank you letter, what does Zlata tell the students not to forget?

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

3. What happens to a student's friends a year ago, when the student was a freshman?

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

5. What is so special about the buses students rode in with Zlata and Mirna?

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