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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. What makes Tommy Jefferson, a football player, cry?
(a) Zlata's experience.
(b) His father's death.
(c) Anne Frank's experience.
(d) The death of a friend.

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

3. What are two books about teens in crisis that are read the fall of 1995?
(a) The Wave and Night.
(b) To Kill a Mockingbird and Catcher in the Rye.
(c) Durango Street and Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.
(d) Twelve Angry Men and Durango Street.

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 has a preppy school teacher also.
(d) Because the character dislikes school also.

5. According to Zlata, what is important about what happens to people?
(a) Whether people are physically hurt or not.
(b) Whether family members are there to help.
(c) Whether people endure emotional crises because of what happened.
(d) How people deal with what happens in their lives.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do some of the teachers call Gruwell?

2. What happened to one student before emigrating to the United States from Peru?

3. When did Zlata begin writing her diary?

4. What starts a series of fights between Hispanics and Blacks at school during the fall of 1996?

5. Why does a teacher call the diary writer of entry 70 lazy?

(see the answer key)

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