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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Miep Gies?
(a) A friend of Zlata Filipovic.
(b) Director of the Museum of Tolerance.
(c) The woman who kept Anne Frank alive in the attic.
(d) A teacher at Wilson High.

2. Since war also came to Kosovo, what did almost all young Yugoslavians know?
(a) What a bomb sounded like and what it was like to have no home.
(b) How to protect themselves.
(c) How to get out of the country.
(d) How to write diaries.

3. What does Zlata have in common with the students?
(a) They have all lost parents.
(b) They are teenagers.
(c) They like the same rock bands.
(d) They all have seen war.

4. Who are the "Dream Team Moms"?
(a) Mothers who adopt the class as their kids.
(b) Mothers who bake cookies for teachers.
(c) Mothers of the football players.
(d) Mothers of the basketball players.

5. In Diary One, how long does the student give Gruwell before she quits?
(a) Two weeks.
(b) Three days.
(c) One day.
(d) A month.

6. What happens to a student's friends a year ago, when the student was a freshman?
(a) Killed in a gang fight.
(b) Put in prison.
(c) Killed trying to commit a robbery.
(d) Sent to juvenile hall.

7. What does a student who is a "goodie two shoes" do when shopping with her parents?
(a) Tears clothes that she tries on.
(b) Shoplift.
(c) Meet a friend.
(d) Put lipstick on clothes she tries on.

8. What incident made Schindler try to save every Jew he could?
(a) Finding the body of a little girl with other dead bodies waiting to be burned.
(b) Losing a favorite employee.
(c) Seeing Jews herded into cattle cars.
(d) Losing a good friend.

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

10. What important lesson does one student learn during her freshman year?
(a) How to study.
(b) People do change.
(c) That Gruwell is an extraordinary teacher.
(d) That school can be interesting.

11. How old is Zlata when she speaks to the students?
(a) Twelve.
(b) Nineteen.
(c) Twenty-one.
(d) Fifteen.

12. Who is coming to speak to the class immediately after Gerda Seifer?
(a) Miep Gies.
(b) Steven Spielberg.
(c) Anne Frank.
(d) Zlata Filipovic.

13. What happens to the fathers of the diversity panelist and the student who are sent to internment camps?
(a) They are horribly disfigured.
(b) They die.
(c) They lose a limb due to infection.
(d) They become abusive and don't care if they hurt their families.

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

15. What types of students attend Wilson High?
(a) Mostly hispanics.
(b) Mostly caucasian students.
(c) Rich kids and poor kids from the projects.
(d) Mostly blacks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gruwell tell the student with a 0.5 GPA?

2. After reading Romeo and Juliet, why does a student realize she is not as in love with her boyfriend as she thinks she is?

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

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

5. Who goes with Zlata to meet the students?

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