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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why did Zlata start writing a diary?
(a) As a place to keep secrets from her parents.
(b) As a place to record her childhood.
(c) Because her grandmother encouraged her to do so.
(d) Because her teacher assigned diary writing as a school project.

3. 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.

4. 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.

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

6. In her thank you letter, what does Zlata tell the students not to forget?
(a) The strength and power to do things is in them.
(b) She keeps in touch by writing.
(c) To raise money for Bosnia.
(d) To keep reading about heroes.

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

8. How do many of the Wilson High Students get to school each day?
(a) They walk.
(b) Their parents drive them.
(c) They ride bikes.
(d) They take 2-3 buses.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a four-letter word not in the students' vocabulary, according to Gruwell their sophomore year?

2. Why are the diaries written anonymously?

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

4. How does Gruwell get money for new books, guest speakers, and field trips?

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

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