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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 does Zlata hope the Freedom Writers Diary will do?
(a) Help the Freedom Writers become successful writers.
(b) Inspire people to write to fight prejudice and to deal with events in a positive way.
(c) Help the families of the Freedom Writers.
(d) Make money so the Freedom Writers can pay for college.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What are two books mentioned in the forward that the students read in class?

3. What incident made Schindler try to save every Jew he could?

4. What is Sharaud's goal when he arrives in Gruwell's class?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does a student transfer from the Distinguished Scholars program to Gruwell's class?

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

3. Who is Gerda Seifer?

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

5. Why is the word 'murder' a shadow hovering over a student's life the fall of 1995?

6. Why does one student decide she is not as in love with her boyfriend as she thought she was?

7. Why is a student excited to meet a Japanese man who was in an internment camp during World War I?

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

9. What does Zlata mean when she says we cannot erase evil from the world, but can change the way we deal with it?

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

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