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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 is Sharaud's goal when he arrives in Gruwell's class?
(a) Make his preppy student teacher cry.
(b) Play basketball.
(c) Drop out of school.
(d) Do well in his studies.

2. How old is Zlata when she speaks to the students?
(a) Nineteen.
(b) Twenty-one.
(c) Twelve.
(d) Fifteen.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Zlata, what is important about what happens to people?

2. What amazes a student about the bathrooms at the Century City Marriott?

3. In the fall of 1995, where is home for a student and his mother who are evicted from their apartment?

4. What does one student do during a "three-week vacation" from school the spring of the freshman year?

5. Why does Zlata believe it is so important for the Freedom Writers to overcome their circumstances?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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