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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What book relates to the life of a student who lives in an interment camp?
(a) Farewell to Manzanar.
(b) Hoop Dreams.
(c) Romeo and Juliet.
(d) Durango Street.

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

3. In Diary One, how long does the student give Gruwell before she quits?
(a) One day.
(b) A month.
(c) Three days.
(d) Two weeks.

4. When did Zlata begin writing her diary?
(a) When the war ended.
(b) Three days before the war ended.
(c) Before the war in Bosnia began.
(d) After the war began in Bosnia.

5. Why are some students not allowed to go to the Medieval Times Restaurant?
(a) Their clothes.
(b) Their attitudes.
(c) They flunk the test.
(d) Their haircuts.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are two books about teens in crisis that are read the fall of 1995?

2. What is Sharaud's goal when he arrives in Gruwell's class?

3. How far do two students go to be accepted into a gang and a sorority?

4. In the spring of 1995, who offers to help take the students on a field trip?

5. Why does one student apologize in Diary 50?

Short Essay Questions

1. As described in Chapter 1, why does a student get a gun to protect him/herself?

2. Why is the summer before the sophomore year the worst ever for one student?

3. Why does Zlata highly respect and admire Gruwell?

4. What happens to a Croatian boy named Tony?

5. Why is the word 'murder' a shadow hovering over a student's life the fall of 1995?

6. Why does one student feel like Cinderella after a dinner at the Century City Marriott?

7. What journey begins for Gruwell as the book opens?

8. Describe what happens when a student is in a liquor store buying candy?

9. What does Zlata mean when she says we cannot erase evil from the world, but can change the way we deal with it?

10. Why does a student decide 'odd' is not a three-letter word, but a seven-letter word?

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