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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter II, Freshman Year - Spring 1995.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Zlata's diary become?
(a) A way to get out of doing schoolwork.
(b) A way to communicate with her friends.
(c) A list of all the atrocities of the war.
(d) A type of therapy to deal with everything that was going on with the war.

2. What does one student realize after playing the Peanut Game?
(a) Grwell makes some very odd comparisons to everyday life.
(b) Gruwell has an interesting way of looking at life.
(c) People can't live in harmony because they won't accept each other's skin color or beliefs.
(d) People are different because of their experiences in life.

3. Why does Gruwell throw out her carefully planned lessons in the fall of 1994?
(a) The lessons are geared toward white middle class students.
(b) The students are not smart enough to handle the work.
(c) None of the students know what the Holocaust is.
(d) The lessons are not appropriate for the class.

4. Why can most of the class relate to the main character in the book Durango Street?
(a) Because either they, a family member, or a friend has been in jail.
(b) Because the character dislikes school also.
(c) Because the character has a preppy school teacher also.
(d) Because they are the same race as the main character.

5. What does Gruwell tell the student with a 0.5 GPA?
(a) That she can tutor the student over the summer.
(b) She believes in her.
(c) That the student has to repeat the class next year.
(d) That the student will never graduate.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does one student call the story "The Last Spin" a trip?

3. When did Zlata begin writing her diary?

4. Why is Gruwell not allowed to teach Sharaud and his classmates the following year?

5. How difficult is it for a student at Wilson to buy a gun?

(see the answer key)

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