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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. Since war also came to Kosovo, what did almost all young Yugoslavians know?
(a) What a bomb sounded like and what it was like to have no home.
(b) How to get out of the country.
(c) How to protect themselves.
(d) How to write diaries.

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

3. Why does Gruwell throw out her carefully planned lessons in the fall of 1994?
(a) The students are not smart enough to handle the work.
(b) The lessons are not appropriate for the class.
(c) The lessons are geared toward white middle class students.
(d) None of the students know what the Holocaust is.

4. What are two books mentioned in the forward that the students read in class?
(a) Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, and Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo.
(b) The Royal Diaries and I Will Bear Witness.
(c) The Great Depression: A Diary and The Adderall Diaries.
(d) The Reagan Diaries and The Heroin Diaries.

5. According to Zlata, what is important about what happens to people?
(a) Whether family members are there to help.
(b) How people deal with what happens in their lives.
(c) Whether people are physically hurt or not.
(d) Whether people endure emotional crises because of what happened.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What book relates to the life of a student who lives in an interment camp?

4. Where is Zlata's homeland?

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

(see the answer key)

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