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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are Zlata and one of the students both wearing when they meet?
(a) Abercrombie & Fitch jeans.
(b) Doc Martens.
(c) Gap sweatshirts.
(d) Aeropostale Ts.

2. What important lesson does one student learn during her freshman year?
(a) People do change.
(b) How to study.
(c) That school can be interesting.
(d) That Gruwell is an extraordinary teacher.

3. Where does Gruwell student teaching?
(a) A high school in Los Angeles.
(b) Williams High School.
(c) Newport Beach High School.
(d) Wilson High School.

4. What does one student compare in his/her life to the Peanut Game?
(a) Not being handsome.
(b) Not being pretty.
(c) Being overweight.
(d) Having a disfiguring scar.

5. Why can't a student go to a movie with her best friend?
(a) The movie is rated R.
(b) Because the friend is white.
(c) They don't have any money.
(d) They can't go without an adult chaperone.

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes studying Camelot and King Arthur more interesting for the students?

2. To what does Gruwell compare the Capulets and Montagues in Romeo and Juliet?

3. Why does Zlata believe it is so important for the Freedom Writers to overcome their circumstances?

4. Where is Zlata's homeland?

5. What book relates to the life of a student who lives in an interment camp?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Gruwell frustrated at the beginning of the semester in the spring of 1995?

2. What is tagging?

3. Why is Zlata Filipovic pleased and honored to write a foreword for "The Freedom Writers Diary"?

4. Why is one student out of school for a week or two before beginning the sophomore year?

5. Why is the summer before the sophomore year the worst ever for one student?

6. What does Zlata mean when she says we cannot erase evil from the world, but can change the way we deal with it?

7. Describe what happens when a student is in a liquor store buying candy?

8. Because of the Read-a-Thon for Tolerance, why is Zlata invited to speak to the class?

9. Why did Zlata begin writing a diary and how did her diary evolve?

10. Describe a tour through the Museum of Tolerance.

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