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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After reading Zlata's Diary, what does the class want to do?
(a) Invite Zlata to come speak to the class.
(b) Go see Schindler's List.
(c) Go to Europe.
(d) Write diaries.

2. What event does Gruwell say puts some teachers at Wilson High over the edge?
(a) When Gruwell's class is invited to meet Spielberg.
(b) When Gruwell's class goes to the school board.
(c) When Gruwell's class startes getting good grades.
(d) When Gruwell's class puts on a play.

3. What happens to a student's friends a year ago, when the student was a freshman?
(a) Put in prison.
(b) Sent to juvenile hall.
(c) Killed in a gang fight.
(d) Killed trying to commit a robbery.

4. Who is Miep Gies?
(a) Director of the Museum of Tolerance.
(b) A friend of Zlata Filipovic.
(c) The woman who kept Anne Frank alive in the attic.
(d) A teacher at Wilson High.

5. How does Zlata respond when asked if she is Croatian, Muslim or Serbian?
(a) She says that she is Serbian.
(b) She says that she is Croatian.
(c) She says that she is Muslim.
(d) She says that she is a human being.

6. What does one student do during a "three-week vacation" from school the spring of the freshman year?
(a) Go to jail.
(b) Help a sick family member.
(c) Chill and smoke.
(d) Go to juvenile hall.

7. What does Zlata hope the Freedom Writers Diary will do?
(a) Help the Freedom Writers become successful writers.
(b) Help the families of the Freedom Writers.
(c) Inspire people to write to fight prejudice and to deal with events in a positive way.
(d) Make money so the Freedom Writers can pay for college.

8. What are two books mentioned in the forward that the students read in class?
(a) Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, and Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo.
(b) The Reagan Diaries and The Heroin Diaries.
(c) The Royal Diaries and I Will Bear Witness.
(d) The Great Depression: A Diary and The Adderall Diaries.

9. What does one student say when she compares her father to John Tu?
(a) Tu is taller than her father.
(b) Tu is very rude to her.
(c) That Tu gives her more attention in seven minutes than her dad has in seven years.
(d) Tu is shorter than her father.

10. After reading Romeo and Juliet, why does a student realize she is not as in love with her boyfriend as she thinks she is?
(a) Because she sees things in him she does not like.
(b) Because she can never stab herself over a guy.
(c) Because she does not want to see him as often.
(d) Because she is becoming interested in another guy.

11. In the spring of 1995, who offers to help take the students on a field trip?
(a) Anne Frank.
(b) The principal.
(c) John Tu.
(d) Other teachers.

12. Why is Gruwell not allowed to teach Sharaud and his classmates the following year?
(a) She is going to a different high school.
(b) She doesn't have enough seniority.
(c) She does not do a very good job of teaching.
(d) She asks to be transferred to a different class.

13. What is another word for 'odd' according to one of the students?
(a) Different.
(b) Sharaud.
(c) Peculiar.
(d) Gruwell.

14. Why is one student not able to play sports, climb gym ropes, swing, or do a pull-up?
(a) Because the student has cystic fibrosis.
(b) Because the student broke an arm.
(c) Because the student has asthma.
(d) Because the student is overweight.

15. How do many of the Wilson High Students get to school each day?
(a) They walk.
(b) Their parents drive them.
(c) They ride bikes.
(d) They take 2-3 buses.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the perfect Cinderella story for one student?

2. What does a student remember after reading about women being molested in Bosnia?

3. How difficult is it for a student at Wilson to buy a gun?

4. Why does the class split up their junior year?

5. According to Zlata, what good came from Anne Frank's tragedy?

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