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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 never go to college.
(b) Otherwise, they do not live to thirty years of age.
(c) Otherwise, they do not graduate from high school.
(d) Otherwise, history repeats with their children.

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

3. Why are the diaries written anonymously?
(a) The students are embarassed of their writing.
(b) The principal insisted that the students remain anonymous.
(c) The school board says the students have to remain anonymous.
(d) To protect the students and show the universality of their experiences.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How difficult is it for a student at Wilson to buy a gun?

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

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

4. Why does one student call the story "The Last Spin" a trip?

5. What does one student realize after playing the Peanut Game?

(see the answer key)

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