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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What good came out of Zlata's bad situation?
(a) She was given some influence in the world.
(b) She was able to finish school.
(c) She was able to become a famous writer.
(d) She is now able to travel.

4. 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.

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

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

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

8. 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 beat someone up.
(c) They deface school property.
(d) They kill someone.

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

10. 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) This student has never before read anything in school that related to everyday life.
(c) It is a very unbelievable story.
(d) It is a very funny story.

11. In Diary Six, how does a student lose many of his friends?
(a) In an undeclared war.
(b) The friends are put in juvenile dentention.
(c) The friends drop out of school.
(d) Because the friends don't want to see the student any more.

12. Why does Gruwell throw out her carefully planned lessons in the fall of 1994?
(a) None of the students know what the Holocaust is.
(b) The lessons are not appropriate for the class.
(c) The students are not smart enough to handle the work.
(d) The lessons are geared toward white middle class students.

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

14. What makes Tommy Jefferson, a football player, cry?
(a) Zlata's experience.
(b) His father's death.
(c) The death of a friend.
(d) Anne Frank's experience.

15. How difficult is it for a student at Wilson to buy a gun?
(a) It is as easy as buying bubble gum.
(b) Difficult, because a gun is very expensive.
(c) Very difficult.
(d) It is impossible; no one sells a student a gun.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the class split up their junior year?

2. What does Zlata say about Erin Gruwell?

3. What does one student realize after playing the Peanut Game?

4. Why is Gruwell frustrated at the beginning of Spring, 1995 semester?

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

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