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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter VI, Junior Year - Spring 1997.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Gruwell feel guilty when she drives students home if they stay late after school?
(a) She feels bad to keep them at school so late.
(b) She feels bad that she cannot take the students to school also.
(c) Where the students live is very unsafe compared to Gruwell's neighborhood.
(d) She feels bad that the students have to help with lesson plans.

2. What happened to one student before emigrating to the United States from Peru?
(a) The house next door was bombed.
(b) The student's school was bombed.
(c) The student's father was killed.
(d) The student was injured in a car bombing.

3. What event does Gruwell say puts some teachers at Wilson High over the edge?
(a) When Gruwell's class puts on a play.
(b) When Gruwell's class is invited to meet Spielberg.
(c) When Gruwell's class startes getting good grades.
(d) When Gruwell's class goes to the school board.

4. Since war also came to Kosovo, what did almost all young Yugoslavians know?
(a) How to get out of the country.
(b) How to write diaries.
(c) How to protect themselves.
(d) What a bomb sounded like and what it was like to have no home.

5. How does Zlata respond when asked if she is Croatian, Muslim or Serbian?
(a) She says that she is Serbian.
(b) She says that she is Croatian.
(c) She says that she is Muslim.
(d) She says that she is a human being.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What good came out of Zlata's bad situation?

3. Who goes with Zlata to meet the students?

4. Why did Zlata start writing a diary?

5. Who are the "Dream Team Moms"?

(see the answer key)

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