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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. How do Gruwell and the students raise money for food and medical supplies for Bosnian kids?
(a) A basketball tournament.
(b) Donation jars at stores.
(c) A bake sale.
(d) A chili supper.

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

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

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

5. Why does Gruwell throw out her carefully planned lessons in the fall of 1994?
(a) None of the students know what the Holocaust is.
(b) The lessons are geared toward white middle class students.
(c) The lessons are not appropriate for the class.
(d) The students are not smart enough to handle the work.

Short Answer Questions

1. What incident made Schindler try to save every Jew he could?

2. What does Gruwell tell the student with a 0.5 GPA?

3. Why doesn't Gruwell take another teaching job in the fall of 1995?

4. According to Zlata, what is important about what happens to people?

5. Since war also came to Kosovo, what did almost all young Yugoslavians know?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Renee Firestone's story affect one student?

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

3. Why is a student excited to meet a Japanese man who was in an internment camp during World War I?

4. Why does Zlata highly respect and admire Gruwell?

5. Why does a student transfer from the Distinguished Scholars program to Gruwell's class?

6. Why does one student decide she is not as in love with her boyfriend as she thought she was?

7. Why are some students not allowed to go to Medieval Times?

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

9. What does Zlata think about the situation in Kosovo?

10. What journey begins for Gruwell as the book opens?

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