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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. When one of the juniors was twelve, how did her grandmother die?
(a) From a fall down stairs.
(b) From burns allegedly inflicted by the student's father.
(c) From a beating by the student's father.
(d) From a heart attack.

2. What does Gruwell do the summer of 1996?
(a) Look for a new job.
(b) Work at Nordstrom's and the Marriott.
(c) Teach at Cal State.
(d) Teach at National University and go to Europe.

3. What poem does a student write after realizing living in the ghetto and having brown skin does not mean you cannot be successful?
(a) You Say, They Say, We Say.
(b) Say it Isn't So.
(c) They Say, I Say.
(d) So Say What You Will.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Tu donate computers?

2. Why is one student not excited about making a book of events from their lives?

3. Whose album cover does the class analyze?

4. What does a student's mother do about a teacher who doesn't read black literature?

5. Who challenges the Freedom Writers to not just talk, but "to walk the walk"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the character Celie in "The Color Purple" remind a student about her Uncle Joe?

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

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

4. What magical event occurs at the Lincoln Memorial?

5. Who is a prisoner who writes the Freedom Writers from West Virginia?

6. Why are little kids bad in the projects?

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

8. Why is it so unusual that the Freedom Writers win the Spirit of Anne Frank Award?

9. Why does a student refer to choices s/he is making as if the student is a traveler in Frost's poem "The Road Not Taken"?

10. What does Gruwell do after the student's graduate?

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