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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. In Diary One, how long does the student give Gruwell before she quits?
2. What feelings does Zlata have when asked to write the forward?
3. What types of students attend Wilson High?
4. Why did Zlata start writing a diary?
5. What event does Gruwell say puts some teachers at Wilson High over the edge?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does a student decide 'odd' is not a three-letter word, but a seven-letter word?
2. What happens to a Croatian boy named Tony?
3. Why is Gruwell stereotyped by some of the other teachers?
4. Why is Gruwell frustrated at the beginning of the semester in the spring of 1995?
5. Why does Renee Firestone's story affect one student?
6. As described in Chapter 1, why does a student get a gun to protect him/herself?
7. Why is Zlata Filipovic pleased and honored to write a foreword for "The Freedom Writers Diary"?
8. What does Zlata think about the situation in Kosovo?
9. Because of the Read-a-Thon for Tolerance, why is Zlata invited to speak to the class?
10. Why does one student decide she is not as in love with her boyfriend as she thought she was?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What comparisons can be made between Zlata and the Freedom Writers? How are Zlata and the Freedom Writers subjected to things that can make them victims? Why don't Zlata and the Freedom Writers become victims? How does writing help all of them? Provide examples from the foreword and the book.
Essay Topic 2
Zlata says during her visit that the Bosnian Children become "soldiers" and the soldiers became "children". What does Zlata mean by that statement? What happens to children during a war? How do soldiers behave when trying to achieve their goals? How are the roles reversed?
Essay Topic 3
In Diary 119, a student asks journalist Peter Maass how he can "simply sit and watch people die." Write about Mr. Maass's answer. Do you agree with his answer? Why or why not?
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