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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter VII, Senior Year - Fall 1997.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does a junior student say about her stepfather during the fall semester?
(a) He works hard.
(b) He is never home.
(c) He is a professional alcoholic.
(d) He loves her mother very much.

2. 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 graduate from high school.
(d) Otherwise, they do not live to thirty years of age.

3. Why is Gruwell not allowed to teach Sharaud and his classmates the following year?
(a) She is going to a different high school.
(b) She asks to be transferred to a different class.
(c) She doesn't have enough seniority.
(d) She does not do a very good job of teaching.

4. What does Gruwell tell the student with a 0.5 GPA?
(a) She believes in her.
(b) That she can tutor the student over the summer.
(c) That the student will never graduate.
(d) That the student has to repeat the class next year.

5. What happened to one student before emigrating to the United States from Peru?
(a) The student was injured in a car bombing.
(b) The student's school was bombed.
(c) The student's father was killed.
(d) The house next door was bombed.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Zlata begin writing her diary?

2. Why are the diaries written anonymously?

3. Why doesn't Gruwell take another teaching job in the fall of 1995?

4. What happens to a student when she runs away with her boyfriend?

5. What does Gruwell tell Zlata on the phone spring of 1996?

(see the answer key)

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