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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter VIII, Senior Year - Spring 1998.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is it difficult for some students to take the SATs?
(a) The students have learning disabilities.
(b) They do not have the educational background to do well.
(c) They do not have transportation to get where the test is given.
(d) Some parents cannot help complete applications and others cannot afford the application fee.

2. One student has never been on a Freedom Writers trip before. Why does the student get to go to D.C.?
(a) Because the student's father is in Mexico.
(b) Because someone donates the money so the student can go.
(c) Because the student no longer has to help with a sick brother.
(d) Because the student finally has good grades.

3. In Diary Six, how does a student lose many of his friends?
(a) The friends drop out of school.
(b) Because the friends don't want to see the student any more.
(c) The friends are put in juvenile dentention.
(d) In an undeclared war.

4. How old is Zlata when she speaks to the students?
(a) Fifteen.
(b) Nineteen.
(c) Twelve.
(d) Twenty-one.

5. What does a junior student say about her stepfather during the fall semester?
(a) He is never home.
(b) He loves her mother very much.
(c) He is a professional alcoholic.
(d) He works hard.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are some students not allowed to go to the Medieval Times Restaurant?

2. How does a mother of a student die of shortly before her Christmas Eve birthday?

3. Why does Gruwell throw out her carefully planned lessons in the fall of 1994?

4. What are two books mentioned in the forward that the students read in class?

5. What does Zlata hope the Freedom Writers Diary will do?

(see the answer key)

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