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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) Make money so the Freedom Writers can pay for college.
(c) Help the families of the Freedom Writers.
(d) Inspire people to write to fight prejudice and to deal with events in a positive way.

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

3. What happens to the fathers of the diversity panelist and the student who are sent to internment camps?
(a) They lose a limb due to infection.
(b) They die.
(c) They are horribly disfigured.
(d) They become abusive and don't care if they hurt their families.

4. What secret is "Little Miss Goodie Goodie" hiding?
(a) That she is doing drugs.
(b) That she is a closet drinker.
(c) That she is pregnant.
(d) That she killed another student.

5. Why does Gruwell throw out her carefully planned lessons in the fall of 1994?
(a) The students are not smart enough to handle the work.
(b) None of the students know what the Holocaust is.
(c) The lessons are geared toward white middle class students.
(d) The lessons are not appropriate for the class.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what kind of neighborhood is Wilson High School located?

2. How does Gruwell get money for new books, guest speakers, and field trips?

3. What event caused 168 innocent men, women and children to die?

4. Who goes with Zlata to meet the students?

5. What are the students inspired to do after reading the diaries?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Who is Miep Gies?

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

8. Why is the summer before the sophomore year the worst ever for one student?

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

10. What is tagging?

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