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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 is Sharaud's goal when he arrives in Gruwell's class?
(a) Drop out of school.
(b) Play basketball.
(c) Make his preppy student teacher cry.
(d) Do well in his studies.

2. Why does one student call the story "The Last Spin" a trip?
(a) The student has never heard of the Montagues and Capulets before.
(b) It is a very unbelievable story.
(c) It is a very funny story.
(d) This student has never before read anything in school that related to everyday life.

3. What happens to the fathers of the diversity panelist and the student who are sent to internment camps?
(a) They lose a limb due to infection.
(b) They die.
(c) They are horribly disfigured.
(d) They become abusive and don't care if they hurt their families.

4. What does one student say when she compares her father to John Tu?
(a) That Tu gives her more attention in seven minutes than her dad has in seven years.
(b) Tu is taller than her father.
(c) Tu is shorter than her father.
(d) Tu is very rude to her.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. After reading Romeo and Juliet, why does a student realize she is not as in love with her boyfriend as she thinks she is?

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

3. Why is Gruwell frustrated at the beginning of Spring, 1995 semester?

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

5. Why did Zlata start writing a diary?

(see the answer key)

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