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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter IV, Sophomore Year - Spring 1996.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why doesn't Gruwell take another teaching job in the fall of 1995?
(a) The teachers beg her to stay at Wilson High.
(b) She cannot find another position.
(c) Other jobs do not pay as well as Wilson High.
(d) She realizes her hypocrisy.

2. When Renee Firestone, a Holocaust survivor, asked a Gestapo agent if she could see her family again, what did she learn?
(a) Her parents were dead, but her siblings were in Renee's barracks.
(b) She could be reunited with her family in the crematorium.
(c) Her father was dead, but her mother was in Renee's barracks.
(d) Her family was transferred to another camp.

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

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

5. 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) Teachers doesn't usually call to say Tommy is doing well.
(d) A teacher never calls him before.

Short Answer Questions

1. What feelings does Zlata have when asked to write the forward?

2. What is so special about the buses students rode in with Zlata and Mirna?

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

4. What happens to a student when she runs away with her boyfriend?

5. Why is one student not able to play sports, climb gym ropes, swing, or do a pull-up?

(see the answer key)

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