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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter III, Sophomore Year - Fall 1995.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What event does Gruwell say puts some teachers at Wilson High over the edge?
(a) When Gruwell's class is invited to meet Spielberg.
(b) When Gruwell's class startes getting good grades.
(c) When Gruwell's class goes to the school board.
(d) When Gruwell's class puts on a play.

3. Why does one student have to be out of school for a week or two and miss the beginning of the sophomore year?
(a) The student's father dies.
(b) He has to be in juvenile hall.
(c) He has to have sinus surgery.
(d) The student's mother dies.

4. Where is Zlata's homeland?
(a) France.
(b) Bosnia.
(c) England.
(d) Ireland.

5. What book relates to the life of a student who lives in an interment camp?
(a) Durango Street.
(b) Farewell to Manzanar.
(c) Hoop Dreams.
(d) Romeo and Juliet.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to a student's friends a year ago, when the student was a freshman?

2. In Diary One, how long does the student give Gruwell before she quits?

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

4. How does Gruwell get money for new books, guest speakers, and field trips?

5. Since war also came to Kosovo, what did almost all young Yugoslavians know?

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