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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 the class split up their junior year?
(a) The school board is not happy with Gruwell's methods.
(b) Other teachers are saying Gruwell doesn't haven't enough seniority to pick students.
(c) Gruwell may be leaving.
(d) The principal wants to split up the class.

2. What happened to one student before emigrating to the United States from Peru?
(a) The student was injured in a car bombing.
(b) The house next door was bombed.
(c) The student's father was killed.
(d) The student's school was bombed.

3. How do many of the Wilson High Students get to school each day?
(a) They take 2-3 buses.
(b) Their parents drive them.
(c) They walk.
(d) They ride bikes.

4. After reading Romeo and Juliet, why does a student realize she is not as in love with her boyfriend as she thinks she is?
(a) Because she is becoming interested in another guy.
(b) Because she sees things in him she does not like.
(c) Because she can never stab herself over a guy.
(d) Because she does not want to see him as often.

5. What happens to a student's friends a year ago, when the student was a freshman?
(a) Sent to juvenile hall.
(b) Put in prison.
(c) Killed trying to commit a robbery.
(d) Killed in a gang fight.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does a student remember after reading about women being molested in Bosnia?

2. Why did Zlata start writing a diary?

3. Who is coming to speak to the class immediately after Gerda Seifer?

4. What makes studying Camelot and King Arthur more interesting for the students?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What parallel does Zlata see between herself and the Freedom Writers?

2. Why is one student out of school for a week or two before beginning the sophomore year?

3. Who is Miep Gies?

4. What is tagging?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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