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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. What are two books mentioned in the forward that the students read in class?
(a) The Great Depression: A Diary and The Adderall Diaries.
(b) The Royal Diaries and I Will Bear Witness.
(c) Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, and Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo.
(d) The Reagan Diaries and The Heroin Diaries.

2. Why can most of the class relate to the main character in the book Durango Street?
(a) Because they are the same race as the main character.
(b) Because the character dislikes school also.
(c) Because the character has a preppy school teacher also.
(d) Because either they, a family member, or a friend has been in jail.

3. 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 never go to college.
(c) Otherwise, they do not live to thirty years of age.
(d) Otherwise, they do not graduate from high school.

4. What does a student remember after reading about women being molested in Bosnia?
(a) How she was raped.
(b) How her uncle molested her.
(c) How her father's friend molested her.
(d) How her father molested her.

5. What secret is "Little Miss Goodie Goodie" hiding?
(a) That she is doing drugs.
(b) That she killed another student.
(c) That she is pregnant.
(d) That she is a closet drinker.

Short Answer Questions

1. How far do two students go to be accepted into a gang and a sorority?

2. Where is Zlata's homeland?

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

4. What is a four-letter word not in the students' vocabulary, according to Gruwell their sophomore year?

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

(see the answer key)

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