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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does a student compare him/herself to when the student says "I've probably witnessed more dead bodies than a ______________."
(a) Police officer.
(b) Soldier in a war.
(c) Doctor.
(d) Mortician.

2. Why does Gruwell almost take another job the fall of 1995?
(a) The apathy of her students.
(b) The attitudes of the other teachers.
(c) The attitudes of the principal and school board.
(d) The students' behavior last year.

3. Why is one student not excited about making a book of events from their lives?
(a) Because the student does feel their writing is very good.
(b) The student would rather write fiction than be reminded of events s/he wishes to suppress.
(c) Because the student does not like being anonymous.
(d) Because the student thinks everyone should write their own book.

4. Why is the Guess? Company sponsoring a trip for some of the Freedom Writers?
(a) Because they are minority entrepreneurs and wish to help others succeed.
(b) Because the founders are Jewish and had to flee Europe during the Holocaust.
(c) Because they donate twenty percent of their profits to needy causes.
(d) Because they graduated from Wilson High School.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does a mother of a student die of shortly before her Christmas Eve birthday?

2. When Renee Firestone, a Holocaust survivor, asked a Gestapo agent if she could see her family again, what did she learn?

3. Why is Gruwell not allowed to teach Sharaud and his classmates the following year?

4. How does one student testify at a murder trial?

5. How do the Freedom Writers hone their writing craft?

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