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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter II, Freshman Year - Spring 1995.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why is Gruwell frustrated at the beginning of Spring, 1995 semester?
(a) She is not allowed to stay after school.
(b) The school board does not allow field trips.
(c) There is one ordeal after the other from race riots to walkouts.
(d) The principal has new restrictions.

3. What does Zlata hope the Freedom Writers Diary will do?
(a) Inspire people to write to fight prejudice and to deal with events in a positive way.
(b) Help the Freedom Writers become successful writers.
(c) Help the families of the Freedom Writers.
(d) Make money so the Freedom Writers can pay for college.

4. Why does one student call the story "The Last Spin" a trip?
(a) It is a very funny story.
(b) The student has never heard of the Montagues and Capulets before.
(c) It is a very unbelievable story.
(d) This student has never before read anything in school that related to everyday life.

5. Why does Zlata believe it is so important for the Freedom Writers to overcome their circumstances?
(a) Otherwise, they do not graduate from high school.
(b) Otherwise, history repeats with their children.
(c) Otherwise, they do not live to thirty years of age.
(d) Otherwise, they never go to college.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does one student do during a "three-week vacation" from school the spring of the freshman year?

2. What did Zlata's diary become?

3. Why is the student in Diary Three at Wilson?

4. To what does Gruwell compare the Capulets and Montagues in Romeo and Juliet?

5. Why can most of the class relate to the main character in the book Durango Street?

(see the answer key)

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