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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does one student describe Ritalin?
(a) It makes you dizzy like being on a carnival ride.
(b) It makes you drowsy.
(c) It is like taking speed.
(d) It has the power to control like a lasso on a horse.

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

3. What makes Tommy Jefferson, a football player, cry?
(a) Zlata's experience.
(b) His father's death.
(c) Anne Frank's experience.
(d) The death of a friend.

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

5. Who says, "Little black boys and black girls are able to join hands with little white boys and white girls"?
(a) Rosa Parks.
(b) Malcom X.
(c) Eldredge Cleaver.
(d) Martin Luther King, Jr.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does one student testify at a murder trial?

3. What does the student who used to play park league and Pop Warner football receive?

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

5. Why is the student in Diary Three at Wilson?

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