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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. How do many of the Wilson High Students get to school each day?
(a) Their parents drive them.
(b) They ride bikes.
(c) They take 2-3 buses.
(d) They walk.

2. What event does Gruwell say puts some teachers at Wilson High over the edge?
(a) When Gruwell's class puts on a play.
(b) When Gruwell's class startes getting good grades.
(c) When Gruwell's class is invited to meet Spielberg.
(d) When Gruwell's class goes to the school board.

3. Since war also came to Kosovo, what did almost all young Yugoslavians know?
(a) How to protect themselves.
(b) What a bomb sounded like and what it was like to have no home.
(c) How to get out of the country.
(d) How to write diaries.

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

5. Why is one student not able to play sports, climb gym ropes, swing, or do a pull-up?
(a) Because the student has asthma.
(b) Because the student is overweight.
(c) Because the student broke an arm.
(d) Because the student has cystic fibrosis.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the student in Diary Three at Wilson?

2. What event caused 168 innocent men, women and children to die?

3. How far do two students go to be accepted into a gang and a sorority?

4. How old is Zlata when she speaks to the students?

5. What important lesson does one student learn during her freshman year?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happens to a Croatian boy named Tony?

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

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

5. Who is Miep Gies?

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

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

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

9. What is tagging?

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

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