View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What program is created to teach tolerance to kids who feel as if they don't fit in?

2. What does a truly self-reliant person do, according to Chapter V?

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

4. Whose album cover does the class analyze?

5. Why does Gruwell feel guilty when she drives students home if they stay late after school?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why is Gruwell scared sometimes when she drives students home?

3. Why does reading "Catcher in the Rye" make a student begin to think about the consequences of suicide?

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

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

6. Why does a student mention that her/his mother said that "Silence gets you nowhere in life"?

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

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

9. Why does the Guess? Company wish to help the students get to New York City to accept an award?

10. When they are in Washington, D.C., what do some students do when they see swastikas?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

During the spring semester of 1996, Gruwell asks, "If you could live an eternity and not change a thing or exist for the blink of an eye and alter everything, what do you choose?" How does Gruwell relate this statement to the students' lives? What does she tell the students they can do? How are the students to seize the moment? Which is better, to live forever and leave the world the same or live for a moment and change everything?

Essay Topic 2

The fall semester of 1996, a student says that America is at war. Is America at war? Why or why not? What examples are provided in the book? Why do students at Wilson High School say that America is at war? Who are the combatants if America is at war?

Essay Topic 3

The motto of the American Jewish Committee that issues the Micah Award is "Whoever saves one life saves the world entire." What does that statement mean? How does that apply to Zlata? How does that statement apply to Anne Frank and those who helped her family? How does that statement apply to Gruwell and the Freedom Writers?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 966 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample