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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter VII, Senior Year - Fall 1997.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Gruwell frustrated at the beginning of Spring, 1995 semester?
(a) The school board does not allow field trips.
(b) The principal has new restrictions.
(c) There is one ordeal after the other from race riots to walkouts.
(d) She is not allowed to stay after school.

2. In the spring of 1995, who offers to help take the students on a field trip?
(a) Anne Frank.
(b) John Tu.
(c) The principal.
(d) Other teachers.

3. Who said, "The best method of overcoming your obstacles is the team method"?
(a) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(b) Maya Angelou.
(c) Eldridge Cleaver.
(d) Colin Powell.

4. How does a mother of a student die of shortly before her Christmas Eve birthday?
(a) Shot in the chest.
(b) Cancer.
(c) Heroin overdose.
(d) Raped and left for dead.

5. What does Gruwell tell the student with a 0.5 GPA?
(a) That the student has to repeat the class next year.
(b) That she can tutor the student over the summer.
(c) That the student will never graduate.
(d) She believes in her.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is coming to speak to the class immediately after Gerda Seifer?

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

3. Who are the "Dream Team Moms"?

4. Where do the Freedom Writers mentor students?

5. What are the only kind of heroes one 15-year-old is familiar with before reading about Anne Frank?

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