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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. 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) Christmas Eve is her birthday.
(c) She doesn't get many present as a child and her parents are trying to make up for it.
(d) Because she has so many children.

2. 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) So Say What You Will.
(c) Say it Isn't So.
(d) They Say, I Say.

3. What does Gruwell tell Zlata on the phone spring of 1996?
(a) Gruwell asks her if she comes again.
(b) That Gruwell is going to Bosnia.
(c) Zlata is the inspiration for the latest writing project.
(d) Gruwell thanks her for coming to see the class.

4. What is the prom queen's native country?
(a) Peru.
(b) Bosnia.
(c) Nicaragua.
(d) Mexico.

5. How does a student feel after editing a story about an abortion?
(a) That he was with his girlfriend when she had her abortion.
(b) That no one has an abortion.
(c) That more girls make the choice to have an abortion.
(d) That his girlfriend did not have an abortion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the book that has Celie as the main character?

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

3. What do the Freedom Writers remember when the pressure of their new lives gets too intense?

4. What happens when a student gives her/himself an F?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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"?

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

4. Why does a student feel that "National Spokesperson for the Plight of Black People" is stamped on her forehead?

5. Why it Christmas Eve so difficult for the student who writes Diary 113?

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

7. What tragic event makes the Freedom Writers realize how fortunate they are?

8. What magical event occurs at the Lincoln Memorial?

9. What do the Freedom Writers want readers of their book to do?

10. How does Gruwell spend the summer of 1996?

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