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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter VII, Senior Year - Fall 1997.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Teres's father?
(a) He is shoved in front of a train.
(b) He overdoses on crack.
(c) He is killed in a drive-by shooting.
(d) He is shot in the head.

2. Why is it difficult for some students to take the SATs?
(a) The students have learning disabilities.
(b) They do not have transportation to get where the test is given.
(c) Some parents cannot help complete applications and others cannot afford the application fee.
(d) They do not have the educational background to do well.

3. Why do the students need a receptionist every class period?
(a) To teach them how to behave in certain social situations.
(b) They have so many visitors.
(c) To help write letters.
(d) They are receiving so much mail.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What important lesson does one student learn during her freshman year?

3. Why does one student apologize in Diary 50?

4. What does one student do during a "three-week vacation" from school the spring of the freshman year?

5. After reading Romeo and Juliet, why does a student realize she is not as in love with her boyfriend as she thinks she is?

(see the answer key)

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