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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. What makes studying Camelot and King Arthur more interesting for the students?
(a) Creating a movie about King Arthur.
(b) Making swords.
(c) The opportunity to go to the Medieval Times restaurant.
(d) Dressing up in medieval costumes.

2. Who is Miep Gies?
(a) A friend of Zlata Filipovic.
(b) The woman who kept Anne Frank alive in the attic.
(c) Director of the Museum of Tolerance.
(d) A teacher at Wilson High.

3. What does Gruwell do the summer of 1996?
(a) Look for a new job.
(b) Work at Nordstrom's and the Marriott.
(c) Teach at Cal State.
(d) Teach at National University and go to Europe.

4. What does a student's mother do about a teacher who doesn't read black literature?
(a) The mother doen't do anything.
(b) Bring a list of black literature to the principal.
(c) Go to the school board.
(d) Yell at the teacher.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the fall of 1994, why does one student say s/he does not belong in Gruwell's class?

2. What event caused 168 innocent men, women and children to die?

3. Why does Gruwell throw out her carefully planned lessons in the fall of 1994?

4. When one of the juniors was twelve, how did her grandmother die?

5. What happens to a student when she runs away with her boyfriend?

(see the answer key)

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