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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the only kind of heroes one 15-year-old is familiar with before reading about Anne Frank?
(a) Civil Rights leaders.
(b) Super heroes in tights.
(c) Good teachers.
(d) Gang leaders.

2. How does Gruwell get money for new books, guest speakers, and field trips?
(a) She also works at the Marriott Hotel and Norstroms.
(b) Gruwell has a trust fund.
(c) The students and their parents pay.
(d) Private donors.

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

4. Why does Gruwell almost take another job the fall of 1995?
(a) The apathy of her students.
(b) The students' behavior last year.
(c) The attitudes of the principal and school board.
(d) The attitudes of the other teachers.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What event caused 168 innocent men, women and children to die?

2. In Diary One, how long does the student give Gruwell before she quits?

3. Why are some students not allowed to go to the Medieval Times Restaurant?

4. Why is Gruwell not allowed to teach Sharaud and his classmates the following year?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. In Diary Two, why does a student wonder why he is in Gruwell's English class?

2. What does Zlata think about the situation in Kosovo?

3. Because of the Read-a-Thon for Tolerance, why is Zlata invited to speak to the class?

4. Why is Zlata Filipovic pleased and honored to write a foreword for "The Freedom Writers Diary"?

5. Describe a tour through the Museum of Tolerance.

6. Describe what happens when a student is in a liquor store buying candy?

7. What do the students do when they play the peanut game?

8. Who is Miep Gies?

9. Why did Zlata begin writing a diary and how did her diary evolve?

10. Why are some students not allowed to go to Medieval Times?

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