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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 event caused 168 innocent men, women and children to die?
(a) An airplane crash.
(b) An earthquake.
(c) Race riots.
(d) Oklahoma City bombing.

2. What happens to a student when she runs away with her boyfriend?
(a) Her parents ground her and transfer her to Wilson High.
(b) She is sent to juvenile hall.
(c) She is homeschooled for awhile.
(d) She goes to live with a relative far away from the boyfriend.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What good came out of Zlata's bad situation?

2. What does one student say when she compares her father to John Tu?

3. According to Zlata, what is important about what happens to people?

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

5. Why can most of the class relate to the main character in the book Durango Street?

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