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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. Who is coming to speak to the class immediately after Gerda Seifer?
(a) Anne Frank.
(b) Miep Gies.
(c) Zlata Filipovic.
(d) Steven Spielberg.

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

3. Why doesn't Gruwell take another teaching job in the fall of 1995?
(a) She cannot find another position.
(b) The teachers beg her to stay at Wilson High.
(c) Other jobs do not pay as well as Wilson High.
(d) She realizes her hypocrisy.

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

5. What are the students inspired to do after reading the diaries?
(a) Write their own diaries.
(b) Write a screenplay.
(c) Quit school.
(d) Talk to their parents about improving their lives.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why can't a student go to a movie with her best friend?

2. What feelings does Zlata have when asked to write the forward?

3. What is the perfect Cinderella story for one student?

4. What does one student say when she compares her father to John Tu?

5. What does Zlata have in common with the students?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Diary 46, why does a student's father dislike her best friend?

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

3. Why does a student transfer from the Distinguished Scholars program to Gruwell's class?

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

5. Why is Gruwell frustrated at the beginning of the semester in the spring of 1995?

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

7. Why is a student excited to meet a Japanese man who was in an internment camp during World War I?

8. Why does Zlata highly respect and admire Gruwell?

9. In Diary Two, why does a student wonder why he is in Gruwell's English class?

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

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