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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. According to Zlata, what is important about what happens to people?
2. After reading Romeo and Juliet, why does a student realize she is not as in love with her boyfriend as she thinks she is?
3. What makes Tommy Jefferson, a football player, cry?
4. What does one student say when she compares her father to John Tu?
5. What does Zlata say about Erin Gruwell?
Short Essay Questions
1. What journey begins for Gruwell as the book opens?
2. Why is Zlata Filipovic pleased and honored to write a foreword for "The Freedom Writers Diary"?
3. Why is Gruwell frustrated at the beginning of the semester in the spring of 1995?
4. Why does one student decide she is not as in love with her boyfriend as she thought she was?
5. As described in Chapter 1, why does a student get a gun to protect him/herself?
6. What does Zlata think about the situation in Kosovo?
7. In Diary 46, why does a student's father dislike her best friend?
8. Why does a student decide 'odd' is not a three-letter word, but a seven-letter word?
9. Who is Miep Gies?
10. Why is Gruwell stereotyped by some of the other teachers?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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.
Essay Topic 2
During the fall semester of the sophomore year, a student struggles with the decision of whether to protect a "homie" and lie in court or to tell the truth. Before the student went to courtroom, what does s/he plan to say? What changes the student's mind? What conversation with his/her mother may be a factor in the student's decision? What circumstances in the student's own life may influence the student's decision? What does the student finally decide to do? Why?
Essay Topic 3
In the foreword to the book, Zlata mentions that good comes out of something bad. Several students, also mention in their diary entries how something bad turns into something positive. Write about what Zlata means that good comes from bad. What examples does Zlata give that shows good comes from bad circumstances? What do students say about difficult circumstances providing positive results? Provide examples from the book when something seems negative, but leads to positive results.
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