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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 does one student realize after playing the Peanut Game?
(a) People are different because of their experiences in life.
(b) Gruwell has an interesting way of looking at life.
(c) People can't live in harmony because they won't accept each other's skin color or beliefs.
(d) Grwell makes some very odd comparisons to everyday life.

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

3. How do many of the Wilson High Students get to school each day?
(a) They take 2-3 buses.
(b) They ride bikes.
(c) Their parents drive them.
(d) They walk.

4. In the spring of 1995, who offers to help take the students on a field trip?
(a) John Tu.
(b) The principal.
(c) Other teachers.
(d) Anne Frank.

5. What does Gruwell tell the student with a 0.5 GPA?
(a) That she can tutor the student over the summer.
(b) That the student will never graduate.
(c) She believes in her.
(d) That the student has to repeat the class next year.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does one student say when she compares her father to John Tu?

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

4. What types of students attend Wilson High?

5. What does one student compare in his/her life to the Peanut Game?

(see the answer key)

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