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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 almost take another job the fall of 1995?
(a) The attitudes of the principal and school board.
(b) The attitudes of the other teachers.
(c) The apathy of her students.
(d) The students' behavior last year.

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. What does a junior student say about her stepfather during the fall semester?
(a) He is a professional alcoholic.
(b) He is never home.
(c) He works hard.
(d) He loves her mother very much.

4. In Diary Six, how does a student lose many of his friends?
(a) The friends are put in juvenile dentention.
(b) The friends drop out of school.
(c) In an undeclared war.
(d) Because the friends don't want to see the student any more.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gruwell do the summer of 1996?

2. When Renee Firestone, a Holocaust survivor, asked a Gestapo agent if she could see her family again, what did she learn?

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

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

5. Where does Gruwell student teaching?

(see the answer key)

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