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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. Who are the "Dream Team Moms"?
(a) Mothers of the basketball players.
(b) Mothers who bake cookies for teachers.
(c) Mothers who adopt the class as their kids.
(d) Mothers of the football players.

2. Why do the students need a receptionist every class period?
(a) To help write letters.
(b) To teach them how to behave in certain social situations.
(c) They have so many visitors.
(d) They are receiving so much mail.

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

4. Why does the class split up their junior year?
(a) The principal wants to split up the class.
(b) Gruwell may be leaving.
(c) The school board is not happy with Gruwell's methods.
(d) Other teachers are saying Gruwell doesn't haven't enough seniority to pick students.

5. When the students are speaking at an elementary school, what icebreaker question brings nearly everyone forward?
(a) "Who has heard of Anne Frank?"
(b) "Who only has one parent?"
(c) "Has anyone seen someone get shot before?"
(d) "Who has had a family member murdered?"

Short Answer Questions

1. After reading Romeo and Juliet, why does a student realize she is not as in love with her boyfriend as she thinks she is?

2. What book relates to the life of a student who lives in an interment camp?

3. What happens to a student when she runs away with her boyfriend?

4. What are Zlata and one of the students both wearing when they meet?

5. Where do the Freedom Writers mentor students?

(see the answer key)

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