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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 does one student testify at a murder trial?

2. What happens to the fathers of the diversity panelist and the student who are sent to internment camps?

3. How difficult is it for a student at Wilson to buy a gun?

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

5. Who is Miep Gies?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Describe a tour through the Museum of Tolerance.

5. Who is Gerda Seifer?

6. Who is Miep Gies?

7. Why is the summer before the sophomore year the worst ever for one student?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

During the spring semester of 1996, Gruwell asks, "If you could live an eternity and not change a thing or exist for the blink of an eye and alter everything, what do you choose?" How does Gruwell relate this statement to the students' lives? What does she tell the students they can do? How are the students to seize the moment? Which is better, to live forever and leave the world the same or live for a moment and change everything?

Essay Topic 2

Write why Gruwell decides that she is being hypocritical at the beginning of the sophomore year. What is hypocrisy? How is Gruwell being hypocritical? How is Gruwell using labels to describe people? What is the danger of stereotyping? How many of the teachers actually are out to get Gruwell? Who helps Gruwell understand her hypocrisy?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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