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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. How do Gruwell and the students raise money for food and medical supplies for Bosnian kids?

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

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

4. What does Gruwell tell the student with a 0.5 GPA?

5. What are the only kind of heroes one 15-year-old is familiar with before reading about Anne Frank?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Zlata mean when she says we cannot erase evil from the world, but can change the way we deal with it?

3. What is tagging?

4. Why does a student transfer from the Distinguished Scholars program to Gruwell's class?

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

6. Why does Zlata highly respect and admire Gruwell?

7. Describe a tour through the Museum of Tolerance.

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Diary 69, a student compares his/her neighborhood to "The Brady Bunch". Write about what life is like for the Brady Bunch. Compare the lives portrayed on the television show to the life this student leads. How are the neighborhoods different? How are their lives different? Is there anything about their lives that is the same?

Essay Topic 2

The students study Ralph Waldo Emerson when learning about self-reliance. What does this quote by Emerson mean: "Who so should be a man, must be a nonconformist"? How does the quote relate to self-reliance? From their diary entries, list examples of how the students are becoming more self-reliant. How is Gruwell helping the students become more self-reliant? How are the circumstances in their daily lives making the students more self-reliant?

Essay Topic 3

Things change for the Freedom Writers from the time they begin classes with Gruwell their freshman year beyond when they graduate from high school. What are some changes students make? What books, people, or events help students to change? List examples from the book of how specific students change and what specific things help the students to change.

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