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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) Near the projects.
(b) Near downtown Los Angeles.
(c) A safe neighborhood near the ocean.
(d) In a gated community.

2. What does a student compare O.J. Simpson's trial to?
(a) The trial of the student's brother for murder.
(b) The Oklahoma City bombing.
(c) The student's mother's trial for murder.
(d) A trial where the student is a witness.

3. What book relates to the life of a student who lives in an interment camp?
(a) Hoop Dreams.
(b) Romeo and Juliet.
(c) Durango Street.
(d) Farewell to Manzanar.

4. What are two books about teens in crisis that are read the fall of 1995?
(a) To Kill a Mockingbird and Catcher in the Rye.
(b) The Wave and Night.
(c) Twelve Angry Men and Durango Street.
(d) Durango Street and Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.

5. What types of students attend Wilson High?
(a) Mostly blacks.
(b) Rich kids and poor kids from the projects.
(c) Mostly hispanics.
(d) Mostly caucasian students.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are some students not allowed to go to the Medieval Times Restaurant?

2. When did Zlata begin writing her diary?

3. What does Zlata have in common with the students?

4. In the fall of 1994, why does one student say s/he does not belong in Gruwell's class?

5. Why can't a student go to a movie with her best friend?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to a Croatian boy named Tony?

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

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

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

5. Why does Zlata highly respect and admire Gruwell?

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

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

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

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

10. Why does a student decide 'odd' is not a three-letter word, but a seven-letter word?

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