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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 incident made Schindler try to save every Jew he could?
(a) Losing a good friend.
(b) Losing a favorite employee.
(c) Finding the body of a little girl with other dead bodies waiting to be burned.
(d) Seeing Jews herded into cattle cars.

2. What does a student remember after reading about women being molested in Bosnia?
(a) How her father molested her.
(b) How she was raped.
(c) How her uncle molested her.
(d) How her father's friend molested her.

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

4. How difficult is it for a student at Wilson to buy a gun?
(a) It is as easy as buying bubble gum.
(b) Difficult, because a gun is very expensive.
(c) It is impossible; no one sells a student a gun.
(d) Very difficult.

5. What does Gruwell tell the student with a 0.5 GPA?
(a) That she can tutor the student over the summer.
(b) That the student will never graduate.
(c) She believes in her.
(d) That the student has to repeat the class next year.

Short Answer Questions

1. What good came out of Zlata's bad situation?

2. In Diary One, how long does the student give Gruwell before she quits?

3. How do Gruwell and the students raise money for food and medical supplies for Bosnian kids?

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

5. Why can't a student go to a movie with her best friend?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does one student feel like Cinderella after a dinner at the Century City Marriott?

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

3. Why does a student decide 'odd' is not a three-letter word, but a seven-letter word?

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

5. Who is Gerda Seifer?

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

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

8. Why does Zlata highly respect and admire Gruwell?

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

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

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