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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter VII, Senior Year - Fall 1997.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Tommy's father surprised when Gruwell calls him?
(a) He thinks Tommy is doing well in school.
(b) Most teachers do not bother to keep parents informed.
(c) A teacher never calls him before.
(d) Teachers doesn't usually call to say Tommy is doing well.

2. What does a student remember after reading about women being molested in Bosnia?
(a) How her father molested her.
(b) How her father's friend molested her.
(c) How she was raped.
(d) How her uncle molested her.

3. When the students are speaking at an elementary school, what icebreaker question brings nearly everyone forward?
(a) "Who only has one parent?"
(b) "Who has had a family member murdered?"
(c) "Who has heard of Anne Frank?"
(d) "Has anyone seen someone get shot before?"

4. What good came out of Zlata's bad situation?
(a) She was able to finish school.
(b) She is now able to travel.
(c) She was given some influence in the world.
(d) She was able to become a famous writer.

5. Where is Gruwell the day before the junior year begins?
(a) Newport Beach.
(b) France.
(c) Long Beach.
(d) Dublin.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the teacher of the students at Wilson High School?

2. Where is Zlata's homeland?

3. What does Gruwell do the summer of 1996?

4. What are the only kind of heroes one 15-year-old is familiar with before reading about Anne Frank?

5. In the fall of 1995, where is home for a student and his mother who are evicted from their apartment?

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