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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are two books about teens in crisis that are read the fall of 1995?
(a) To Kill a Mockingbird and Catcher in the Rye.
(b) Durango Street and Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.
(c) Twelve Angry Men and Durango Street.
(d) The Wave and Night.

2. Who helps Gruwell get permission to teach the seniors?
(a) The teachers' union.
(b) Teachers at the high school.
(c) Dr. Cohn and Karin Polacheck.
(d) John Tu.

3. Why at the Lincoln Monument does Gruwell begin to understand why moms cry at school plays and graduations?
(a) She is worried about getting everyone back on the buses.
(b) She is so proud of the Freedom Writers.
(c) She can't find one of the students.
(d) She is not looking forward to losing the students after they graduated.

4. How do many of the Wilson High Students get to school each day?
(a) They ride bikes.
(b) They walk.
(c) They take 2-3 buses.
(d) Their parents drive them.

5. In the book, "Animal Farm", what is a Boxer?
(a) A person who is a homebody.
(b) A person who likes to party.
(c) A person who does not work hard.
(d) A person who is hardworking.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a student referring to when she says she is a loving girl, but there is pain in her heart?

2. What makes Tommy Jefferson, a football player, cry?

3. What event caused 168 innocent men, women and children to die?

4. What is the prom queen's native country?

5. Why is Gruwell not allowed to teach Sharaud and his classmates the following year?

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