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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 amazes a student about the bathrooms at the Century City Marriott?
(a) There is an attendant in the bathroom.
(b) You have to pay a quarter to use the bathroom.
(c) There is a bathroom for whites and one for other races.
(d) The bathrooms have real towels, no trash on the floor, and no stall doors missing.

2. Why did Zlata start writing a diary?
(a) As a place to keep secrets from her parents.
(b) As a place to record her childhood.
(c) Because her teacher assigned diary writing as a school project.
(d) Because her grandmother encouraged her to do so.

3. What is the perfect Cinderella story for one student?
(a) To have a date for the prom.
(b) To be prom queen.
(c) To have her father be a dad.
(d) To have a boyfriend like John Tu.

4. Why does Zlata believe it is so important for the Freedom Writers to overcome their circumstances?
(a) Otherwise, history repeats with their children.
(b) Otherwise, they never go to college.
(c) Otherwise, they do not live to thirty years of age.
(d) Otherwise, they do not graduate from high school.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What types of students attend Wilson High?

2. What did Zlata's diary become?

3. What does one student say when she compares her father to John Tu?

4. In the fall of 1994, why does one student say s/he does not belong in Gruwell's class?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who is Gerda Seifer?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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