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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1, Freshman Year - Fall 1994.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Zlata begin writing her diary?
(a) Before the war in Bosnia began.
(b) After the war began in Bosnia.
(c) When the war ended.
(d) Three days before the war ended.

2. In what kind of neighborhood is Wilson High School located?
(a) Near downtown Los Angeles.
(b) Near the projects.
(c) In a gated community.
(d) A safe neighborhood near the ocean.

3. Since war also came to Kosovo, what did almost all young Yugoslavians know?
(a) What a bomb sounded like and what it was like to have no home.
(b) How to protect themselves.
(c) How to write diaries.
(d) How to get out of the country.

4. How far do two students go to be accepted into a gang and a sorority?
(a) One student is beaten until bones are broken and another student is humiliated.
(b) They beat someone up.
(c) They deface school property.
(d) They kill someone.

5. Why does Zlata believe it is so important for the Freedom Writers to overcome their circumstances?
(a) Otherwise, they do not graduate from high school.
(b) Otherwise, they do not live to thirty years of age.
(c) Otherwise, they never go to college.
(d) Otherwise, history repeats with their children.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Zlata say about Erin Gruwell?

2. When does Zlata meet the students of Wilson High School?

3. What is Sharaud's goal when he arrives in Gruwell's class?

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

5. In Diary One, how long does the student give Gruwell before she quits?

(see the answer key)

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