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

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 family was transferred to another camp.
(b) She could be reunited with her family in the crematorium.
(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.

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

3. How far do two students go to be accepted into a gang and a sorority?
(a) They kill someone.
(b) They beat someone up.
(c) One student is beaten until bones are broken and another student is humiliated.
(d) They deface school property.

4. In the fall of 1995, where is home for a student and his mother who are evicted from their apartment?
(a) His church.
(b) At his aunt's house.
(c) Room 203.
(d) Room 407.

5. 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.

6. What is another word for 'odd' according to one of the students?
(a) Sharaud.
(b) Peculiar.
(c) Gruwell.
(d) Different.

7. What is a four-letter word not in the students' vocabulary, according to Gruwell their sophomore year?
(a) Nice.
(b) Work.
(c) Give.
(d) Hope.

8. What good came out of Zlata's bad situation?
(a) She was given some influence in the world.
(b) She was able to finish school.
(c) She was able to become a famous writer.
(d) She is now able to travel.

9. After reading Romeo and Juliet, why does a student realize she is not as in love with her boyfriend as she thinks she is?
(a) Because she sees things in him she does not like.
(b) Because she does not want to see him as often.
(c) Because she is becoming interested in another guy.
(d) Because she can never stab herself over a guy.

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

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

12. Where does Gruwell student teaching?
(a) A high school in Los Angeles.
(b) Wilson High School.
(c) Newport Beach High School.
(d) Williams High School.

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

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

15. 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) Put lipstick on clothes she tries on.
(d) Meet a friend.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Gruwell throw out her carefully planned lessons in the fall of 1994?

3. What is the perfect Cinderella story for one student?

4. What makes studying Camelot and King Arthur more interesting for the students?

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

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