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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. Who helps Gruwell get permission to teach the seniors?
(a) Teachers at the high school.
(b) The teachers' union.
(c) Dr. Cohn and Karin Polacheck.
(d) John Tu.

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

3. What incident made Schindler try to save every Jew he could?
(a) Losing a good friend.
(b) Losing a favorite employee.
(c) Finding the body of a little girl with other dead bodies waiting to be burned.
(d) Seeing Jews herded into cattle cars.

4. Where do the Freedom Writers mentor students?
(a) Long Beach Elementary School.
(b) Butler Elementary School.
(c) Newport Beach Elementary School.
(d) Wilson Elementary School.

5. Who is Miep Gies?
(a) The woman who kept Anne Frank alive in the attic.
(b) A teacher at Wilson High.
(c) A friend of Zlata Filipovic.
(d) Director of the Museum of Tolerance.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Zlata when she speaks to the students?

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

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

4. Why do the students need a receptionist every class period?

5. What important lesson does one student learn during her freshman year?

(see the answer key)

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