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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 does a student want to tell a prisoner in West Virginia?
2. What is the prom queen's native country?
3. After Christmas 1997, what award do the students win?
4. In the book "Animal Farm", what is a Molly?
5. When the students are speaking at an elementary school, what icebreaker question brings nearly everyone forward?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Gruwell spend the summer of 1996?
2. Why is it difficult for Gruwell to get permission to teach the students their senior year?
3. Why it Christmas Eve so difficult for the student who writes Diary 113?
4. Who is a prisoner who writes the Freedom Writers from West Virginia?
5. What does Gruwell do after the student's graduate?
6. Why is getting kicked off the basketball team eventually a positive thing for Joan?
7. Who is Peter Maass?
8. Why is it so unusual that the Freedom Writers win the Spirit of Anne Frank Award?
9. What circumstances lead to a student being offered a job from John Tu?
10. When they are in Washington, D.C., what do some students do when they see swastikas?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
A theme in the book is the parallel between warfare as experienced by Anne Frank and Zlata Filipovic and the violence the students see in their everyday lives. How can the events in Anne's and Zlata's lives be compared to the student's lives? What kind of violence did Frank and Filipovic experience? What type of violence do the students experience? How is the violence that Anne and Zlata experienced similar or dissimilar to what the students face?
Essay Topic 2
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.
Essay Topic 3
In Diary 74, a student's mother tells him/her that "One person can make a difference that can change the world." Why does the student find that statement unbelievable? What are some examples of people the student remembers making great changes? Does the student begin to believe that one person can make a difference that changes the world? Does the student believe that s/he can make that kind of difference or that his/her fellow students can make that type of a difference? Why or why not? Provide examples from the book.
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