FWD Half Way Test Review
Multiple Choice - Foreword1. What feelings does Zlata have when asked to write the forward?
a) Frustrated and nervous.
b) Displeased.
c) Honored, proud, and amazed.
d) Honored, but not interested.
2. When does Zlata meet the students of Wilson High School?
a) December, 1997.
b) March, 1996.
c) September, 1998.
d) March, 2006.
3. Who goes with Zlata to meet the students?
a)Zlata's parents and her best friend, Mirna.
b) No one, Zlata goes alone.
c)Zlata grandparents.
d)Zlata's teacher.
4. Where is Zlata's homeland?
a) France.
b) England.
c) Bosnia.
d) Ireland.
5. What does Zlata have in common with the students?
a) They have all lost parents.
b) They are teenagers.
c) They like the same rock bands.
d) They all have seen war
6. Who is the teacher of the students at Wilson High School?
a) Elise Gonzalez.
b) Erin Gruwell.
c) Emilie Gridwell.
d) Anne Frank.
7. What are two books mentioned in the forward that the students read in class?
a) The Reagan Diaries and The Heroin Diaries.
b) The Great Depression: A Diary and The Adderall Diaries.
c) The Royal Diaries and I Will Bear Witness.
d) Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, and Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo.
8. What are the students inspired to do after reading the diaries?
a) Talk to their parents about improving their lives.
b) Quit school.
c) Write a screenplay.
d) Write their own diaries.
9. When did Zlata begin writing her diary?
a) Before the war in Bosnia began.
b) When the war ended.
c) After the war began in Bosnia.
d) Three days before the war ended.
10. Why did Zlata start writing a diary?
a) As a place to record her childhood.
b) Because her grandmother encouraged her to do so.
c) Because her teacher assigned diary writing as a school project.
d) As a place to keep secrets from her parents.
11. What did Zlata's diary become?
a) A way to get out of doing schoolwork.
b) A type of therapy to deal with everything that was going on with the war.
c) A way to communicate with her friends.
d) A list of all the atrocities of the war.
12. Since war also came to Kosovo, what did almost all young Yugoslavians know?
a) What a bomb sounded like and what it was like to have no home.
b) How to write diaries.
c) How to protect themselves.
d) How to get out of the country.
13. Why does Zlata believe it is so important for the Freedom Writers to overcome their circumstances?
a) Otherwise, they do not live to thirty years of age.
b) Otherwise, history repeats with their children.
c) Otherwise, they never go to college.
d) Otherwise, they do not graduate from high school.
14. What does Zlata say about Erin Gruwell?
a)Gruwell is lucky to have such a talented group of students.
b)Gruwell should move on to a different high school.
c)Gruwell is respected and liked by all her fellow teachers.
d)Gruwell serves as parent, friend, advocate, and teacher.
15. What good came out of Zlata's bad situation?
a) She was able to finish school.
b) She is now able to travel.
c) She was able to become a famous writer.
d) She was given some influence in the world.
16. According to Zlata, what good came from Anne Frank's tragedy?
a) Anne is known all around the world.
b) Anne never knew what happens to her family.
c) Anne's strength remains to lead and inspire.
d) Anne is responsible for helping to end the war.
17. According to Zlata, what is important about what happens to people?
a) How people deal with what happens in their lives.
b) Whether people endure emotional crises because of what happened.
c) Whether family members are there to help.
d) Whether people are physically hurt or not.
18. What does Zlata hope the Freedom Writers Diary will do?
a) Inspire people to write to fight prejudice and to deal with events in a positive way.
b) Help the families of the Freedom Writers.
c) Help the Freedom Writers become successful writers.
d) Make money so the Freedom Writers can pay for college.
Multiple Choice - Chapter 1, Freshman Year - Fall 1994
1. Where does Gruwell student teaching?
a) Newport Beach High School.
b) A high school in Los Angeles.
c) Williams High School.
d) Wilson High School.
2. In what kind of neighborhood is Wilson High School located?
a) A safe neighborhood near the ocean.
b) Near the projects.
c) Near downtown Los Angeles.
d) In a gated community.
3. How do many of the Wilson High Students get to school each day?
a) They ride bikes.
b) Their parents drive them.
c) They walk.
d) They take 2-3 buses.
4. What types of students attend Wilson High?
a) Rich kids and poor kids from the projects.
b) Mostly caucasian students.
c) Mostly blacks.
d) Mostly hispanics.
5. What is Sharaud's goal when he arrives in Gruwell's class?
a) Make his preppy student teacher cry.
b) Do well in his studies.
c) Drop out of school.
d) Play basketball.
6. Why does Gruwell throw out her carefully planned lessons in the fall of 1994?
a) The students are not smart enough to handle the work.
b) The lessons are not appropriate for the class.
c) The lessons are geared toward white middle class students.
d) None of the students know what the Holocaust is.
7. How does Gruwell get money for new books, guest speakers, and field trips?
a) Private donors.
b) The students and their parents pay.
c)Gruwell has a trust fund.
d) She also works at the Marriott Hotel and Norstroms.
8. Why is Gruwell not allowed to teach Sharaud and his classmates the following year?
a) She doesn't have enough seniority.
b) She asks to be transferred to a different class.
c) She is going to a different high school.
d) She does not do a very good job of teaching.
9. Why are the diaries written anonymously?
a) The principal insisted that the students remain anonymous.
b) To protect the students and show the universality of their experiences.
c) The students are embarassed of their writing.
d) The school board says the students have to remain anonymous.
10. What is another word for 'odd' according to one of the students?
a) Peculiar.
b) Different.
c)Gruwell.
d)Sharaud.
11. In Diary One, how long does the student give Gruwell before she quits?
a) Two weeks.
b) One day.
c) Three days.
d) A month.
12. In the fall of 1994, why does one student say s/he does not belong in Gruwell's class?
a) Because the student is Latino.
b) Because there is a mix up in the schedule.
c) Because the student is white.
d) Because the student's test scores are high.
13. Why is the student in Diary Three at Wilson?
a) Wilson is the closest school to the student's home.
b) The student is expelled from their old school.
c) It is either Wilson or boot camp.
d) The student's parents arrange a transfer.
14. How difficult is it for a student at Wilson to buy a gun?
a) It is impossible; no one sells a student a gun.
b) Difficult, because a gun is very expensive.
c) It is as easy as buying bubble gum.
d) Very difficult.
15. In Diary Six, how does a student lose many of his friends?
a) Because the friends don't want to see the student any more.
b) The friends drop out of school.
c) In an undeclared war.
d) The friends are put in juvenile dentention.
16. How far do two students go to be accepted into a gang and a sorority?
a) One student is beaten until bones are broken and another student is humiliated.
b) They kill someone.
c) They deface school property.
d) They beat someone up.
17. Why can most of the class relate to the main character in the book Durango Street?
a) Because either they, a family member, or a friend has been in jail.
b) Because the character has a preppy school teacher also.
c) Because the character dislikes school also.
d) Because they are the same race as the main character.
18. Why does one student call the story "The Last Spin" a trip?
a) This student has never before read anything in school that related to everyday life.
b) It is a very funny story.
c) It is a very unbelievable story.
d) The student has never heard of the Montagues and Capulets before.
Multiple Choice - Chapter II, Freshman Year - Spring 1995
1. Why is Gruwell frustrated at the beginning of Spring, 1995 semester?
a) She is not allowed to stay after school.
b) There is one ordeal after the other from race riots to walkouts.
c) The school board does not allow field trips.
d) The principal has new restrictions.
2. In the spring of 1995, who offers to help take the students on a field trip?
a) Anne Frank.
b) The principal.
c) Other teachers.
d) John Tu.
3. To what does Gruwell compare the Capulets and Montagues in Romeo and Juliet?
a) The Latino and Asian gangs in Long Beach.
b) The preppy students and the Asian students.
c) The Black and Hispanic gangs in Long Beach.
d) The Black and Asian gangs in Long Beach.
4. After reading Romeo and Juliet, why does a student realize she is not as in love with her boyfriend as she thinks she is?
a) Because she is becoming interested in another guy.
b) Because she sees things in him she does not like.
c) Because she does not want to see him as often.
d) Because she can never stab herself over a guy.
5. What happens to a student when she runs away with her boyfriend?
a) She is homeschooled for awhile.
b) She goes to live with a relative far away from the boyfriend.
c) Her parents ground her and transfer her to Wilson High.
d) She is sent to juvenile hall.
6. 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.
7. What does one student realize after playing the Peanut Game?
a) People can't live in harmony because they won't accept each other's skin color or beliefs.
b)Gruwell has an interesting way of looking at life.
c) People are different because of their experiences in life.
d)Grwell makes some very odd comparisons to everyday life.
8. What event caused 168 innocent men, women and children to die?
a) Oklahoma City bombing.
b) An earthquake.
c) An airplane crash.
d) Race riots.
9. What book relates to the life of a student who lives in an interment camp?
a) Farewell to Manzanar.
b) Hoop Dreams.
c) Romeo and Juliet.
d) Durango Street.
10. What happens to the fathers of the diversity panelist and the student who are sent to internment camps?
a) They become abusive and don't care if they hurt their families.
b) They die.
c) They are horribly disfigured.
d) They lose a limb due to infection.
11. What does one student realize after meeting the diversity panelists?
a) Other people have difficult lives also.
b) The student does not have anything in common with the diversity panelists.
c) That anything is possible.
d) That the panelists overcome many hardships.
12. When Renee Firestone, a Holocaust survivor, asked a Gestapo agent if she could see her family again, what did she learn?
a) Her parents were dead, but her siblings were in Renee's barracks.
b) She could be reunited with her family in the crematorium.
c) Her father was dead, but her mother was in Renee's barracks.
d) Her family was transferred to another camp.
13. What amazes a student about the bathrooms at the Century City Marriott?
a) You have to pay a quarter to use the bathroom.
b) There is an attendant in the bathroom.
c) The bathrooms have real towels, no trash on the floor, and no stall doors missing.
d) There is a bathroom for whites and one for other races.
14. What does one student say when she compares her father to John Tu?
a)Tu is taller than her father.
b)Tu is shorter than her father.
c) That Tu gives her more attention in seven minutes than her dad has in seven years.
d)Tu is very rude to her.
15. What is the perfect Cinderella story for one student?
a) To have her father be a dad.
b) To be prom queen.
c) To have a date for the prom.
d) To have a boyfriend like John Tu.
16. What important lesson does one student learn during her freshman year?
a) How to study.
b) That school can be interesting.
c) People do change.
d) That Gruwell is an extraordinary teacher.
17. What does one student do during a "three-week vacation" from school the spring of the freshman year?
a) Go to jail.
b) Go to juvenile hall.
c) Help a sick family member.
d) Chill and smoke.
18. What does Gruwell tell the student with a 0.5 GPA?
a) That the student will never graduate.
b) That the student has to repeat the class next year.
c) She believes in her.
d) That she can tutor the student over the summer. / Multiple Choice - Chapter III, Sophomore Year - Fall 1995
1. What event does Gruwell say puts some teachers at Wilson High over the edge?
a) When Gruwell's class goes to the school board.
b) When Gruwell's class is invited to meet Spielberg.
c) When Gruwell's class puts on a play.
d) When Gruwell's class startes getting good grades.
2. What do some of the teachers call Gruwell?
a) A Prima Donna.
b) A great teacher.
c) A troublemaker.
d) A brown noser.
3. Why does Gruwell almost take another job the fall of 1995?
a) The attitudes of the other teachers.
b) The attitudes of the principal and school board.
c) The apathy of her students.
d) The students' behavior last year.
4. Why doesn't Gruwell take another teaching job in the fall of 1995?
a) Other jobs do not pay as well as Wilson High.
b) She cannot find another position.
c) She realizes her hypocrisy.
d) The teachers beg her to stay at Wilson High.
5. What is a four-letter word not in the students' vocabulary, according to Gruwell their sophomore year?
a) Nice.
b) Hope.
c) Work.
d) Give.
6. What are two books about teens in crisis that are read the fall of 1995?
a) The Wave and Night.
b) Twelve Angry Men and Durango Street.
c) To Kill a Mockingbird and Catcher in the Rye.
d) Durango Street and Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.
7. In the fall of 1995, where is home for a student and his mother who are evicted from their apartment?
a) At his aunt's house.
b) His church.
c) Room 407.
d) Room 203.
8. Why does one student have to be out of school for a week or two and miss the beginning of the sophomore year?
a) He has to be in juvenile hall.
b) The student's father dies.
c) He has to have sinus surgery.
d) The student's mother dies.
9. The beginning of the sophomore year, what does a transfer student wish Gruwell is like?
a) More concerned about her students.
b) Less concerned about grades.
c) Boring like the other teachers.
d) More interesting, like the other teachers.
10. What does a student compare O.J. Simpson's trial to?
a) The Oklahoma City bombing.
b) The trial of the student's brother for murder.
c) A trial where the student is a witness.
d) The student's mother's trial for murder.
11. What makes studying Camelot and King Arthur more interesting for the students?
a) The opportunity to go to the Medieval Times restaurant.
b) Dressing up in medieval costumes.
c) Making swords.
d) Creating a movie about King Arthur.
12. Why are some students not allowed to go to the Medieval Times Restaurant?
a) Their clothes.
b) They flunk the test.
c) Their haircuts.
d) Their attitudes.
13. What happens to a student's friends a year ago, when the student was a freshman?
a) Killed in a gang fight.
b) Sent to juvenile hall.
c) Put in prison.
d) Killed trying to commit a robbery.
14. How does one student testify at a murder trial?
a) The student lies.
b) The student confesses to the crime.
c) The student takes the fifth.
d) The student tells the truth.
15. What secret is "Little Miss Goodie Goodie" hiding?
a) That she is doing drugs.
b) That she is a closet drinker.
c) That she killed another student.
d) That she is pregnant.
16. What does a student who is a "goodie two shoes" do when shopping with her parents?
a) Put lipstick on clothes she tries on.
b) Tears clothes that she tries on.
c) Shoplift.
d) Meet a friend.
17. What does a student remember after reading about women being molested in Bosnia?
a) How she was raped.
b) How her father molested her.
c) How her father's friend molested her.
d) How her uncle molested her.
18. After reading Zlata's Diary, what does the class want to do?
a) Go see Schindler's List.
b) Write diaries.
c) Invite Zlata to come speak to the class.
d) Go to Europe.
Multiple Choice - Chapter IV, Sophomore Year - Spring 1996
1. What makes Tommy Jefferson, a football player, cry?
a) The death of a friend.
b)Zlata's experience.
c) His father's death.
d) Anne Frank's experience.
2. Why is Tommy's father surprised when Gruwell calls him?
a) He thinks Tommy is doing well in school.
b) Most teachers do not bother to keep parents informed.
c) Teachers doesn't usually call to say Tommy is doing well.
d) A teacher never calls him before.
3. Who is coming to speak to the class immediately after GerdaSeifer?