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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. In her thank you letter, what does Zlata tell the students not to forget?
(a) The strength and power to do things is in them.
(b) To raise money for Bosnia.
(c) She keeps in touch by writing.
(d) To keep reading about heroes.

2. What are two books mentioned in the forward that the students read in class?
(a) The Reagan Diaries and The Heroin Diaries.
(b) The Great Depression: A Diary and The Adderall Diaries.
(c) The Royal Diaries and I Will Bear Witness.
(d) Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, and Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo.

3. How does Zlata respond when asked if she is Croatian, Muslim or Serbian?
(a) She says that she is Croatian.
(b) She says that she is Muslim.
(c) She says that she is a human being.
(d) She says that she is Serbian.

4. Why is Gruwell frustrated at the beginning of Spring, 1995 semester?
(a) The school board does not allow field trips.
(b) The principal has new restrictions.
(c) She is not allowed to stay after school.
(d) There is one ordeal after the other from race riots to walkouts.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the teacher of the students at Wilson High School?

2. Since war also came to Kosovo, what did almost all young Yugoslavians know?

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why are some students not allowed to go to Medieval Times?

5. What happens to a Croatian boy named Tony?

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

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

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

9. Describe a tour through the Museum of Tolerance.

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

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