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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 does a student who is a "goodie two shoes" do when shopping with her parents?
(a) Meet a friend.
(b) Put lipstick on clothes she tries on.
(c) Tears clothes that she tries on.
(d) Shoplift.

2. What happens to a student's friends a year ago, when the student was a freshman?
(a) Put in prison.
(b) Killed trying to commit a robbery.
(c) Sent to juvenile hall.
(d) Killed in a gang fight.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Miep Gies?

2. What does one student realize after meeting the diversity panelists?

3. What makes Tommy Jefferson, a football player, cry?

4. Why did Zlata start writing a diary?

5. Why is one student not able to play sports, climb gym ropes, swing, or do a pull-up?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Zlata think about the situation in Kosovo?

5. Who is Miep Gies?

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

7. Why is one student out of school for a week or two before beginning the sophomore year?

8. Why is Gruwell stereotyped by some of the other teachers?

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

10. Why does one student decide she is not as in love with her boyfriend as she thought she was?

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