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

2. 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) What a bomb sounded like and what it was like to have no home.
(d) How to protect themselves.

3. How far do two students go to be accepted into a gang and a sorority?
(a) They beat someone up.
(b) They deface school property.
(c) One student is beaten until bones are broken and another student is humiliated.
(d) They kill someone.

4. How does Gruwell get money for new books, guest speakers, and field trips?
(a) Private donors.
(b) She also works at the Marriott Hotel and Norstroms.
(c) The students and their parents pay.
(d) Gruwell has a trust fund.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How difficult is it for a student at Wilson to buy a gun?

2. Who goes with Zlata to meet the students?

3. How do many of the Wilson High Students get to school each day?

4. Why does Zlata believe it is so important for the Freedom Writers to overcome their circumstances?

5. What types of students attend Wilson High?

(see the answer key)

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