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

2. What are the students inspired to do after reading the diaries?

3. What secret is "Little Miss Goodie Goodie" hiding?

4. What does a student remember after reading about women being molested in Bosnia?

5. Why does one student apologize in Diary 50?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What happens to a Croatian boy named Tony?

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

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

6. Why is the word 'murder' a shadow hovering over a student's life the fall of 1995?

7. Why is Gruwell stereotyped by some of the other teachers?

8. Who is Miep Gies?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

The motto of the American Jewish Committee that issues the Micah Award is "Whoever saves one life saves the world entire." What does that statement mean? How does that apply to Zlata? How does that statement apply to Anne Frank and those who helped her family? How does that statement apply to Gruwell and the Freedom Writers?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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