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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does Gruwell student teaching?

3. What are two books about teens in crisis that are read the fall of 1995?

4. What are the students inspired to do after reading the diaries?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Because of the Read-a-Thon for Tolerance, why is Zlata invited to speak to the class?

2. Describe a tour through the Museum of Tolerance.

3. Why does Zlata highly respect and admire Gruwell?

4. Why is Zlata Filipovic pleased and honored to write a foreword for "The Freedom Writers Diary"?

5. Why is the summer before the sophomore year the worst ever for one student?

6. What journey begins for Gruwell as the book opens?

7. What happens to a Croatian boy named Tony?

8. Why did Zlata begin writing a diary and how did her diary evolve?

9. What parallel does Zlata see between herself and the Freedom Writers?

10. In Diary 46, why does a student's father dislike her best friend?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Diary 69, a student compares his/her neighborhood to "The Brady Bunch". Write about what life is like for the Brady Bunch. Compare the lives portrayed on the television show to the life this student leads. How are the neighborhoods different? How are their lives different? Is there anything about their lives that is the same?

Essay Topic 2

Zlata says during her visit that the Bosnian Children become "soldiers" and the soldiers became "children". What does Zlata mean by that statement? What happens to children during a war? How do soldiers behave when trying to achieve their goals? How are the roles reversed?

Essay Topic 3

During the fall semester of the sophomore year, a student struggles with the decision of whether to protect a "homie" and lie in court or to tell the truth. Before the student went to courtroom, what does s/he plan to say? What changes the student's mind? What conversation with his/her mother may be a factor in the student's decision? What circumstances in the student's own life may influence the student's decision? What does the student finally decide to do? Why?

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