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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does one student say when she compares her father to John Tu?
(a) That Tu gives her more attention in seven minutes than her dad has in seven years.
(b) Tu is taller than her father.
(c) Tu is shorter than her father.
(d) Tu is very rude to her.

3. How does one student testify at a murder trial?
(a) The student lies.
(b) The student tells the truth.
(c) The student takes the fifth.
(d) The student confesses to the crime.

4. Why is Tommy's father surprised when Gruwell calls him?
(a) Most teachers do not bother to keep parents informed.
(b) He thinks Tommy is doing well in school.
(c) A teacher never calls him before.
(d) Teachers doesn't usually call to say Tommy is doing well.

5. What are two books about teens in crisis that are read the fall of 1995?
(a) To Kill a Mockingbird and Catcher in the Rye.
(b) Durango Street and Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.
(c) The Wave and Night.
(d) Twelve Angry Men and Durango Street.

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

7. What book relates to the life of a student who lives in an interment camp?
(a) Farewell to Manzanar.
(b) Durango Street.
(c) Hoop Dreams.
(d) Romeo and Juliet.

8. What secret is "Little Miss Goodie Goodie" hiding?
(a) That she is a closet drinker.
(b) That she is pregnant.
(c) That she is doing drugs.
(d) That she killed another student.

9. What feelings does Zlata have when asked to write the forward?
(a) Honored, but not interested.
(b) Frustrated and nervous.
(c) Honored, proud, and amazed.
(d) Displeased.

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

11. Why does one student have to be out of school for a week or two and miss the beginning of the sophomore year?
(a) The student's father dies.
(b) He has to be in juvenile hall.
(c) He has to have sinus surgery.
(d) The student's mother dies.

12. How do many of the Wilson High Students get to school each day?
(a) They ride bikes.
(b) They walk.
(c) Their parents drive them.
(d) They take 2-3 buses.

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

14. According to Zlata, what good came from Anne Frank's tragedy?
(a) Anne is responsible for helping to end the war.
(b) Anne never knew what happens to her family.
(c) Anne's strength remains to lead and inspire.
(d) Anne is known all around the world.

15. The beginning of the sophomore year, what does a transfer student wish Gruwell is like?
(a) Less concerned about grades.
(b) Boring like the other teachers.
(c) More concerned about her students.
(d) More interesting, like the other teachers.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Zlata respond when asked if she is Croatian, Muslim or Serbian?

2. Since war also came to Kosovo, what did almost all young Yugoslavians know?

3. Why is one student not able to play sports, climb gym ropes, swing, or do a pull-up?

4. What does one student compare in his/her life to the Peanut Game?

5. What does Zlata hope the Freedom Writers Diary will do?

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