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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the prom queen's native country?

2. What novel inspires one of the student's to try to write her own book?

3. Why does a student get kicked off the basketball team this senior year?

4. Why does a teacher call the diary writer of entry 70 lazy?

5. Who helps Gruwell get permission to teach the seniors?

Short Essay Questions

1. After the students walk down the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, what does someone suggest?

2. When they are in Washington, D.C., what do some students do when they see swastikas?

3. Why is it difficult for Gruwell to get permission to teach the students their senior year?

4. Why does a student have trouble editing a story about an abortion?

5. Why does a student write that she is a loving girl and mention that she cries when she read "The Color Purple"?

6. Why does a student have to clean his/her mother's blood off the wall?

7. Why does the Guess? Company wish to help the students get to New York City to accept an award?

8. In Diary 103, how many girls does the student know that go to college?

9. Who is Peter Maass?

10. Why did a student charge a Coke machine when s/he was young?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

A theme in the book is the parallel between warfare as experienced by Anne Frank and Zlata Filipovic and the violence the students see in their everyday lives. How can the events in Anne's and Zlata's lives be compared to the student's lives? What kind of violence did Frank and Filipovic experience? What type of violence do the students experience? How is the violence that Anne and Zlata experienced similar or dissimilar to what the students face?

Essay Topic 2

Things change for the Freedom Writers from the time they begin classes with Gruwell their freshman year beyond when they graduate from high school. What are some changes students make? What books, people, or events help students to change? List examples from the book of how specific students change and what specific things help the students to change.

Essay Topic 3

Zlata says during her visit that the Bosnian Children become "soldiers" and the soldiers became "children". What does Zlata mean by that statement? What happens to children during a war? How do soldiers behave when trying to achieve their goals? How are the roles reversed?

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