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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. When Renee Firestone, a Holocaust survivor, asked a Gestapo agent if she could see her family again, what did she learn?
(a) Her father was dead, but her mother was in Renee's barracks.
(b) She could be reunited with her family in the crematorium.
(c) Her family was transferred to another camp.
(d) Her parents were dead, but her siblings were in Renee's barracks.

2. What are the students inspired to do after reading the diaries?
(a) Write their own diaries.
(b) Talk to their parents about improving their lives.
(c) Write a screenplay.
(d) Quit school.

3. In Chapter V, what illness runs in a student's family?
(a) Cystic fibrosis.
(b) Cancer of the liver.
(c) Clinical depression.
(d) Congenital heart defects.

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

5. When one of the juniors was twelve, how did her grandmother die?
(a) From burns allegedly inflicted by the student's father.
(b) From a heart attack.
(c) From a beating by the student's father.
(d) From a fall down stairs.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where do the Freedom Writers mentor students?

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

4. According to Zlata, what good came from Anne Frank's tragedy?

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

(see the answer key)

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