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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 what kind of neighborhood is Wilson High School located?
(a) A safe neighborhood near the ocean.
(b) In a gated community.
(c) Near the projects.
(d) Near downtown Los Angeles.

2. What feelings does Zlata have when asked to write the forward?
(a) Honored, proud, and amazed.
(b) Displeased.
(c) Frustrated and nervous.
(d) Honored, but not interested.

3. What makes Tommy Jefferson, a football player, cry?
(a) Zlata's experience.
(b) The death of a friend.
(c) Anne Frank's experience.
(d) His father's death.

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 does not want to see him as often.
(c) Because she can never stab herself over a guy.
(d) Because she sees things in him she does not like.

5. What does one student realize after meeting the diversity panelists?
(a) The student does not have anything in common with the diversity panelists.
(b) Other people have difficult lives also.
(c) That anything is possible.
(d) That the panelists overcome many hardships.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. In her thank you letter, what does Zlata tell the students not to forget?

5. What is so special about the buses students rode in with Zlata and Mirna?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to a Croatian boy named Tony?

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

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

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

5. Describe what happens when a student is in a liquor store buying candy?

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

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

8. Describe a tour through the Museum of Tolerance.

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

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

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