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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. Why does one student call the story "The Last Spin" a trip?
(a) It is a very funny story.
(b) It is a very unbelievable story.
(c) This student has never before read anything in school that related to everyday life.
(d) The student has never heard of the Montagues and Capulets before.

2. What did Zlata's diary become?
(a) A list of all the atrocities of the war.
(b) A way to communicate with her friends.
(c) A way to get out of doing schoolwork.
(d) A type of therapy to deal with everything that was going on with the war.

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

4. Who goes with Zlata to meet the students?
(a) Zlata's parents and her best friend, Mirna.
(b) Zlata grandparents.
(c) No one, Zlata goes alone.
(d) Zlata's teacher.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Zlata believe it is so important for the Freedom Writers to overcome their circumstances?

2. According to Zlata, what good came from Anne Frank's tragedy?

3. In Diary Six, how does a student lose many of his friends?

4. What does one student realize after playing the Peanut Game?

5. What is a four-letter word not in the students' vocabulary, according to Gruwell their sophomore year?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Gerda Seifer?

2. Why does Renee Firestone's story affect one student?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. In Diary 46, why does a student's father dislike her best friend?

10. What journey begins for Gruwell as the book opens?

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