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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who says, "Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy"?
2. What novel inspires one of the student's to try to write her own book?
3. What starts a series of fights between Hispanics and Blacks at school during the fall of 1996?
4. How is money raised to get the students to college?
5. After Christmas 1997, what award do the students win?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does the Guess? Company wish to help the students get to New York City to accept an award?
2. Why is it difficult for Gruwell to get permission to teach the students their senior year?
3. Why is Gruwell scared sometimes when she drives students home?
4. What tragic event makes the Freedom Writers realize how fortunate they are?
5. Why does the character Celie in "The Color Purple" remind a student about her Uncle Joe?
6. After the students walk down the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, what does someone suggest?
7. 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"?
8. Why are little kids bad in the projects?
9. Why is a student acting as receptionist in the classroom by Chapter VII?
10. Why it Christmas Eve so difficult for the student who writes Diary 113?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In Diary 107, a student compares the students at an elementary school to lotus flowers. Why does the student compare these children to lotus flowers? In what type of environment do lotus flowers grow? How is the environment of a lotus plant similar to the environment the children from the elementary school live in?
Essay Topic 2
During the spring semester of 1996, Tommy makes a statement: "They say America is the 'Land of the Free and home of the Brave,' but what's so free about a land where people get killed?" What does Tommy mean by this statement? What examples does he give to demonstrate what he means by this statement? Why does Tommy make this statement? What is he comparing when he makes this statement?
Essay Topic 3
Violence is an everyday occurrence for the Freedom Writers in their homes and neighborhoods. Write about the violence they see everyday. How does this violence affect the students? How does this violence affect their families or friends? How does writing the diaries help the students learn to deal with the violence in their lives? Does Gruwell help the students to break this cycle of violence?
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