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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Besides moving forward, what are the Freedom Writers doing?
(a) Serving as volunteers.
(b) Writing novels, poetry, and newspaper or magazine articles.
(c) Volunteering at the Museum of Tolerance.
(d) Pulling family members and friends along too.

2. Although their destinations after high school are different, what is still the same for the Freedom Writers?
(a) Their full-ride scholarships.
(b) They are mentoring kids from the projects.
(c) They are all attending college.
(d) Their common goal.

3. What reporter does a student mention from the Los Angeles Times?
(a) Nancy Wride.
(b) Anita Wright.
(c) Nancy Phillips.
(d) Nellie WIlliams.

4. How is money raised for a trip to Washington, D.C.?
(a) A basketball game.
(b) Donations from wealthy donors.
(c) A bake sale.
(d) A concert.

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

6. Why is a student amazed at being chosen to speak in front of Barbara Boxer, their senator?
(a) The student is deaf and speaks with sign language.
(b) Because the student has done some very outrageous things over the years.
(c) The student does not have good grades.
(d) The student has a speech impediment.

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

8. What happens after a student drives John Tu to his car?
(a) Tu offers the student a job.
(b) Tu tells the student to get a better car.
(c) The student gets a flat tire.
(d) Tu gives the student money for the ride.

9. Why at the Lincoln Monument does Gruwell begin to understand why moms cry at school plays and graduations?
(a) She is so proud of the Freedom Writers.
(b) She is not looking forward to losing the students after they graduated.
(c) She can't find one of the students.
(d) She is worried about getting everyone back on the buses.

10. Who says, "Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy"?
(a) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(b) Zlata Filipovic.
(c) Miep Gies.
(d) Anne Frank.

11. Why, a few weeks before graduation, does a student have to give up his dream of attending a prestigious technical school?
(a) He flunks several of his classes.
(b) His father is ill.
(c) His mother dies.
(d) He does not get a scholarship.

12. What does a student say after not taking the opportunity to sing to Jopie and Lies?
(a) "Success comes only to those who take advantage of opportunities."
(b) "Silence gets you nowhere in life."
(c) "Only those who take advantage of opportunities in life succeed."
(d) "A missed opportunity can never be made up."

13. Why does Gruwell feel guilty when she drives students home if they stay late after school?
(a) She feels bad that she cannot take the students to school also.
(b) She feels bad that the students have to help with lesson plans.
(c) Where the students live is very unsafe compared to Gruwell's neighborhood.
(d) She feels bad to keep them at school so late.

14. What do the Freedom Writers do after their first year in college?
(a) Go to China.
(b) Tour Europe.
(c) Go to an impoverished country and build houses.
(d) Visit South America.

15. How do the Freedom Writers hone their writing craft?
(a) Gruwell and other teachers work with them one-on-one.
(b) They create a college course.
(c) The school board brings in tutors.
(d) They hire tutors.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Christmas song is twisted during a sorority hazing?

2. How does one student describe Ritalin?

3. What poem does a student write after realizing living in the ghetto and having brown skin does not mean you cannot be successful?

4. Why do the students need a receptionist every class period?

5. In the book, "Animal Farm", what is a Boxer?

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