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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 the only kind of heroes one 15-year-old is familiar with before reading about Anne Frank?
(a) Good teachers.
(b) Super heroes in tights.
(c) Gang leaders.
(d) Civil Rights leaders.

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

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

4. According to Zlata, what is important about what happens to people?
(a) Whether people endure emotional crises because of what happened.
(b) Whether family members are there to help.
(c) Whether people are physically hurt or not.
(d) How people deal with what happens in their lives.

5. What is so special about the buses students rode in with Zlata and Mirna?
(a) The buses are air conditioned, have televisions, seat lights, and bathrooms.
(b) There are no broken windows or torn seats.
(c) They are driven by bus drivers in tuxedoes.
(d) Each student has their own seat.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do many of the Wilson High Students get to school each day?

2. Why does Gruwell throw out her carefully planned lessons in the fall of 1994?

3. What types of students attend Wilson High?

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

5. How far do two students go to be accepted into a gang and a sorority?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What parallel does Zlata see between herself and the Freedom Writers?

4. Why is the word 'murder' a shadow hovering over a student's life the fall of 1995?

5. As described in Chapter 1, why does a student get a gun to protect him/herself?

6. In Diary 46, why does a student's father dislike her best friend?

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

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

9. What do the students do when they play the peanut game?

10. Describe a tour through the Museum of Tolerance.

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