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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to a student when she runs away with her boyfriend?
(a) She is sent to juvenile hall.
(b) She goes to live with a relative far away from the boyfriend.
(c) Her parents ground her and transfer her to Wilson High.
(d) She is homeschooled for awhile.

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. How does Gruwell get money for new books, guest speakers, and field trips?
(a) She also works at the Marriott Hotel and Norstroms.
(b) Gruwell has a trust fund.
(c) Private donors.
(d) The students and their parents pay.

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

10. 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 can never stab herself over a guy.
(b) Because she is becoming interested in another guy.
(c) Because she sees things in him she does not like.
(d) Because she does not want to see him as often.

11. According to Zlata, what is important about what happens to people?
(a) Whether people are physically hurt or not.
(b) Whether people endure emotional crises because of what happened.
(c) How people deal with what happens in their lives.
(d) Whether family members are there to help.

12. After reading Zlata's Diary, what does the class want to do?
(a) Invite Zlata to come speak to the class.
(b) Go see Schindler's List.
(c) Write diaries.
(d) Go to Europe.

13. Why can most of the class relate to the main character in the book Durango Street?
(a) Because the character has a preppy school teacher also.
(b) Because the character dislikes school also.
(c) Because either they, a family member, or a friend has been in jail.
(d) Because they are the same race as the main character.

14. 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) Losing a good friend.
(d) Seeing Jews herded into cattle cars.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What are Zlata and one of the students both wearing when they meet?

4. Why does one student have to be out of school for a week or two and miss the beginning of the sophomore year?

5. In Diary Six, how does a student lose many of his friends?

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