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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter VIII, Senior Year - Spring 1998.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old is Zlata when she speaks to the students?
(a) Nineteen.
(b) Twelve.
(c) Fifteen.
(d) Twenty-one.

2. What important lesson does one student learn during her freshman year?
(a) How to study.
(b) That school can be interesting.
(c) That Gruwell is an extraordinary teacher.
(d) People do change.

3. Why does a student's mother usually get twice as many presents on Christmas Eve as everyone else?
(a) She doesn't get many present as a child and her parents are trying to make up for it.
(b) Because her husband is sorry for the years he isn't there for the family.
(c) Christmas Eve is her birthday.
(d) Because she has so many children.

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

5. When one of the juniors was twelve, how did her grandmother die?
(a) From burns allegedly inflicted by the student's father.
(b) From a beating by the student's father.
(c) From a fall down stairs.
(d) From a heart attack.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does a student feel after editing a story about an abortion?

2. What novel inspires one of the student's to try to write her own book?

3. What book relates to the life of a student who lives in an interment camp?

4. What does a truly self-reliant person do, according to Chapter V?

5. What did Zlata's diary become?

(see the answer key)

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