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

2. What types of students attend Wilson High?
(a) Mostly caucasian students.
(b) Mostly blacks.
(c) Mostly hispanics.
(d) Rich kids and poor kids from the projects.

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

4. Why is the student in Diary Three at Wilson?
(a) The student's parents arrange a transfer.
(b) It is either Wilson or boot camp.
(c) Wilson is the closest school to the student's home.
(d) The student is expelled from their old school.

5. In Diary One, how long does the student give Gruwell before she quits?
(a) A month.
(b) Three days.
(c) Two weeks.
(d) One day.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does one student do during a "three-week vacation" from school the spring of the freshman year?

2. Why are the diaries written anonymously?

3. In the spring of 1995, who offers to help take the students on a field trip?

4. What is Sharaud's goal when he arrives in Gruwell's class?

5. What does Zlata have in common with the students?

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