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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After the students walk down the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, where do they wish to go next?
(a) Bosnia.
(b) The Library of Congress.
(c) The Smithsonian.
(d) Anne Frank's attic.

2. In Chapter V, what illness runs in a student's family?
(a) Congenital heart defects.
(b) Cancer of the liver.
(c) Clinical depression.
(d) Cystic fibrosis.

3. After Christmas 1997, what award do the students win?
(a) Mies Giep Award.
(b) Freedom Award.
(c) Spirit of Anne Frank Award.
(d) Martin Luther King, Jr., Award.

4. Who wrote, "Who so should be a man, must be a nonconformist"?
(a) Whitman.
(b) Thoreau.
(c) Poe.
(d) Emerson.

5. Who publishes the Freedom Writer's diaries?
(a) Doubleday.
(b) HarperCollins.
(c) McGraw-Hill.
(d) Inner City Press.

6. Why is it difficult for some students to take the SATs?
(a) The students have learning disabilities.
(b) They do not have the educational background to do well.
(c) They do not have transportation to get where the test is given.
(d) Some parents cannot help complete applications and others cannot afford the application fee.

7. What road less traveled does a student decide to take Senior year?
(a) To graduate from high school.
(b) To leave the gang.
(c) To become a doctor.
(d) The road to college.

8. What is a student referring to when she says she is a loving girl, but there is pain in her heart?
(a) She wishes she has a boyfriend.
(b) Her best friend died.
(c) She is in an abusive relationship.
(d) Her mother is dying.

9. What program is created to teach tolerance to kids who feel as if they don't fit in?
(a) Celebrating Diversity Through Literature.
(b) Celebrating Diversity Through Sports.
(c) Diversity Through Mentoring.
(d) Celebrating Diversity Through the Arts.

10. Why does a teacher say they do not read black literature in class?
(a) Because it all has sex, fornication, drugs, and cussing.
(b) Because there isn't time.
(c) Because there aren't any good black writers.
(d) Because the teacher prefers to read literature by Hispanics.

11. Why does a student's mother usually get twice as many presents on Christmas Eve as everyone else?
(a) Because her husband is sorry for the years he isn't there for the family.
(b) Because she has so many children.
(c) She doesn't get many present as a child and her parents are trying to make up for it.
(d) Christmas Eve is her birthday.

12. When the students walk down the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, what motto do they chant?
(a) Dreams make you free.
(b) Be free, dream.
(c) Freedom Writers have a dream.
(d) Freedom forever.

13. What is different about rooming arrangements when the Freedom Writers go to New York?
(a) The students stay with holocaust survivors.
(b) The students stay with private individuals.
(c) The students choose their roommates.
(d) Gruwell chooses who rooms with who.

14. What civil rights activist do the Freedom Writers meet days before the second college semester begins?
(a) Rosa Parks.
(b) Harry Belafonte.
(c) Lurma Rackley.
(d) Celeste Wiley.

15. Who are Jopie and Lies?
(a) Anne Frank's aunt and uncle.
(b) Children from the family that hid the Franks during the war.
(c) Anne Frank's parents.
(d) Anne's best friends from school before the war.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the students and Gruwell have to climb out the window of the school one night?

2. What do the students do when they walk down the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in the spring of 1997?

3. Why does a student say John Tu gives instead of handouts?

4. Why doesn't Gruwell cheer when students get excited about making another trip after touring the Lincoln Memorial?

5. When one of the juniors was twelve, how did her grandmother die?

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