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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter VII, Senior Year - Fall 1997.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does one student realize after meeting the diversity panelists?
(a) That the panelists overcome many hardships.
(b) That anything is possible.
(c) The student does not have anything in common with the diversity panelists.
(d) Other people have difficult lives also.

2. Why is it difficult for some students to take the SATs?
(a) The students have learning disabilities.
(b) They do not have the educational background to do well.
(c) They do not have transportation to get where the test is given.
(d) Some parents cannot help complete applications and others cannot afford the application fee.

3. How old is Zlata when she speaks to the students?
(a) Nineteen.
(b) Twelve.
(c) Twenty-one.
(d) Fifteen.

4. Where do the Freedom Writers mentor students?
(a) Long Beach Elementary School.
(b) Butler Elementary School.
(c) Wilson Elementary School.
(d) Newport Beach Elementary School.

5. To what does Gruwell compare the Capulets and Montagues in Romeo and Juliet?
(a) The Black and Hispanic gangs in Long Beach.
(b) The Latino and Asian gangs in Long Beach.
(c) The Black and Asian gangs in Long Beach.
(d) The preppy students and the Asian students.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Teres's father?

2. What does a student want to tell a prisoner in West Virginia?

3. What happened to one student before emigrating to the United States from Peru?

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

5. What does one student realize after playing the Peanut Game?

(see the answer key)

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