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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 does one student compare in his/her life to the Peanut Game?
(a) Not being handsome.
(b) Not being pretty.
(c) Having a disfiguring scar.
(d) Being overweight.

2. What does Zlata hope the Freedom Writers Diary will do?
(a) Inspire people to write to fight prejudice and to deal with events in a positive way.
(b) Help the Freedom Writers become successful writers.
(c) Help the families of the Freedom Writers.
(d) Make money so the Freedom Writers can pay for college.

3. How far do two students go to be accepted into a gang and a sorority?
(a) They kill someone.
(b) One student is beaten until bones are broken and another student is humiliated.
(c) They deface school property.
(d) They beat someone up.

4. What good came out of Zlata's bad situation?
(a) She was able to finish school.
(b) She was given some influence in the world.
(c) She is now able to travel.
(d) She was able to become a famous writer.

5. Who is the teacher of the students at Wilson High School?
(a) Emilie Gridwell.
(b) Erin Gruwell.
(c) Elise Gonzalez.
(d) Anne Frank.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Diary Six, how does a student lose many of his friends?

2. What happens to the fathers of the diversity panelist and the student who are sent to internment camps?

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

4. What does Gruwell tell the student with a 0.5 GPA?

5. When Renee Firestone, a Holocaust survivor, asked a Gestapo agent if she could see her family again, what did she learn?

(see the answer key)

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