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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 Gruwell tell the student with a 0.5 GPA?
(a) That the student has to repeat the class next year.
(b) She believes in her.
(c) That the student will never graduate.
(d) That she can tutor the student over the summer.

2. Who is the teacher of the students at Wilson High School?
(a) Emilie Gridwell.
(b) Elise Gonzalez.
(c) Erin Gruwell.
(d) Anne Frank.

3. What does one student compare in his/her life to the Peanut Game?
(a) Not being handsome.
(b) Not being pretty.
(c) Having a disfiguring scar.
(d) Being overweight.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Zlata hope the Freedom Writers Diary will do?

3. What does a student compare O.J. Simpson's trial to?

4. What is a four-letter word not in the students' vocabulary, according to Gruwell their sophomore year?

5. What does one student realize after playing the Peanut Game?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to a Croatian boy named Tony?

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

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

4. Why does Zlata highly respect and admire Gruwell?

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

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

7. Who is Gerda Seifer?

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

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

10. In Diary 46, why does a student's father dislike her best friend?

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