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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. After reading Zlata's Diary, what does the class want to do?
(a) Go to Europe.
(b) Write diaries.
(c) Go see Schindler's List.
(d) Invite Zlata to come speak to the class.

2. Why doesn't Gruwell take another teaching job in the fall of 1995?
(a) She realizes her hypocrisy.
(b) She cannot find another position.
(c) Other jobs do not pay as well as Wilson High.
(d) The teachers beg her to stay at Wilson High.

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

4. What event does Gruwell say puts some teachers at Wilson High over the edge?
(a) When Gruwell's class goes to the school board.
(b) When Gruwell's class puts on a play.
(c) When Gruwell's class startes getting good grades.
(d) When Gruwell's class is invited to meet Spielberg.

5. What does one student realize after playing the Peanut Game?
(a) Grwell makes some very odd comparisons to everyday life.
(b) People are different because of their experiences in life.
(c) People can't live in harmony because they won't accept each other's skin color or beliefs.
(d) Gruwell has an interesting way of looking at life.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Gruwell and the students raise money for food and medical supplies for Bosnian kids?

2. What secret is "Little Miss Goodie Goodie" hiding?

3. In the spring of 1995, who offers to help take the students on a field trip?

4. Why can't a student go to a movie with her best friend?

5. Why does one student apologize in Diary 50?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is tagging?

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

4. Why does a student decide 'odd' is not a three-letter word, but a seven-letter word?

5. Who is Miep Gies?

6. Why does one student feel like Cinderella after a dinner at the Century City Marriott?

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

8. Who is Gerda Seifer?

9. Why is Gruwell stereotyped by some of the other teachers?

10. Why is Gruwell frustrated at the beginning of the semester in the spring of 1995?

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