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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter V, Junior Year - Fall 1996.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Gruwell not allowed to teach Sharaud and his classmates the following year?
(a) She asks to be transferred to a different class.
(b) She doesn't have enough seniority.
(c) She does not do a very good job of teaching.
(d) She is going to a different high school.

2. When Renee Firestone, a Holocaust survivor, asked a Gestapo agent if she could see her family again, what did she learn?
(a) She could be reunited with her family in the crematorium.
(b) Her family was transferred to another camp.
(c) Her father was dead, but her mother was in Renee's barracks.
(d) Her parents were dead, but her siblings were in Renee's barracks.

3. Who are the "Dream Team Moms"?
(a) Mothers of the basketball players.
(b) Mothers who bake cookies for teachers.
(c) Mothers who adopt the class as their kids.
(d) Mothers of the football players.

4. Why is one student not able to play sports, climb gym ropes, swing, or do a pull-up?
(a) Because the student is overweight.
(b) Because the student has cystic fibrosis.
(c) Because the student has asthma.
(d) Because the student broke an arm.

5. Where is Gruwell the day before the junior year begins?
(a) Dublin.
(b) Long Beach.
(c) France.
(d) Newport Beach.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what kind of neighborhood is Wilson High School located?

2. What does a student compare O.J. Simpson's trial to?

3. What do some of the teachers call Gruwell?

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

5. Why does one student apologize in Diary 50?

(see the answer key)

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