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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who is Miep Gies?
2. What good came out of Zlata's bad situation?
3. What does Gruwell tell the student with a 0.5 GPA?
4. In Diary Six, how does a student lose many of his friends?
5. In Diary One, how long does the student give Gruwell before she quits?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Zlata think about the situation in Kosovo?
2. What parallel does Zlata see between herself and the Freedom Writers?
3. Because of the Read-a-Thon for Tolerance, why is Zlata invited to speak to the class?
4. Why does Renee Firestone's story affect one student?
5. Why is a student excited to meet a Japanese man who was in an internment camp during World War I?
6. What do the students do when they play the peanut game?
7. In Diary Two, why does a student wonder why he is in Gruwell's English class?
8. Why does one student feel like Cinderella after a dinner at the Century City Marriott?
9. Why is Gruwell stereotyped by some of the other teachers?
10. As described in Chapter 1, why does a student get a gun to protect him/herself?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What does it mean "World peace is only a dream because people won't allow themselves and others around them to simply be peanuts"? Explain the meaning of the phrase, and why a student compares people to peanuts. How do peanuts compare to people? What happens if people are allowed to be peanuts? What does people living in harmony have to do with the appearance of peanuts?
Essay Topic 2
In Diary 74, a student's mother tells him/her that "One person can make a difference that can change the world." Why does the student find that statement unbelievable? What are some examples of people the student remembers making great changes? Does the student begin to believe that one person can make a difference that changes the world? Does the student believe that s/he can make that kind of difference or that his/her fellow students can make that type of a difference? Why or why not? Provide examples from the book.
Essay Topic 3
A mother tells her child in Diary 99 that "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger!" A person the student looks up to says "Adversity makes warriors of us all." What do each of these statements mean? How can a person become stronger through difficulties? How can adversity make a person a warrior? How does the student feel about these statements at first? What person inspires the student? How does this person help the student to realize the possibilities that life holds?
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