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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the prom queen's native country?
(a) Mexico.
(b) Nicaragua.
(c) Peru.
(d) Bosnia.

3. What happens when a student gives her/himself an F?
(a) The student is dropped from Gruwell's class.
(b) Gruwell gets angry and says that if you fail, I fail.
(c) The student is expelled.
(d) The student is sent to the principal's office.

4. What do the Freedom Writers remember when the pressure of their new lives gets too intense?
(a) The lessons learned in Gruwell's class.
(b) All the awards they receive.
(c) John Tu's encouragement.
(d) Words of Anne Frank.

5. In Chapter V, what illness runs in a student's family?
(a) Clinical depression.
(b) Congenital heart defects.
(c) Cancer of the liver.
(d) Cystic fibrosis.

6. Who challenges the Freedom Writers to not just talk, but "to walk the walk"?
(a) Connie Cheung.
(b) John Tu.
(c) Erin Gruwell.
(d) Harry Belafonte.

7. Why does Tu donate computers?
(a) To set up a computer lab.
(b) So no one recognizes the handwriting in diary entries.
(c) Because there are no computers available at school.
(d) So every teacher at Wilson High has a computer in their classrooms.

8. What does a student say after not taking the opportunity to sing to Jopie and Lies?
(a) "Success comes only to those who take advantage of opportunities."
(b) "Only those who take advantage of opportunities in life succeed."
(c) "A missed opportunity can never be made up."
(d) "Silence gets you nowhere in life."

9. What road less traveled does a student decide to take Senior year?
(a) To leave the gang.
(b) To become a doctor.
(c) To graduate from high school.
(d) The road to college.

10. Whose album cover does the class analyze?
(a) Eminem.
(b) Kanye West.
(c) Snoop Doggy Dogg.
(d) 50 Cent.

11. Why is a student amazed at being chosen to speak in front of Barbara Boxer, their senator?
(a) The student has a speech impediment.
(b) The student does not have good grades.
(c) The student is deaf and speaks with sign language.
(d) Because the student has done some very outrageous things over the years.

12. Why is a student asking the question, "To sign or not to sign"?
(a) The student is trying to decide whether to go to college or play minor league baseball.
(b) The student is trying to decide whether to play professional soccer.
(c) The player is trying to decide whether to play professional basketball.
(d) The student is trying to decide whether to play professional football or not.

13. Why do the students and Gruwell have to climb out the window of the school one night?
(a) So the alarms don't go off.
(b) Because there is a gang fight outside the front door.
(c) That is how they get into the school.
(d) Because they are not supposed to be in the building after hours.

14. In the book "Animal Farm", what is a Molly?
(a) A person who gossips.
(b) A person who does not work hard.
(c) A person who can't keep a secret.
(d) A person who works hard.

15. What does a student's mother do about a teacher who doesn't read black literature?
(a) Bring a list of black literature to the principal.
(b) Yell at the teacher.
(c) Go to the school board.
(d) The mother doen't do anything.

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. One student has never been on a Freedom Writers trip before. Why does the student get to go to D.C.?

3. What is the name of the book that has Celie as the main character?

4. Who says, "Little black boys and black girls are able to join hands with little white boys and white girls"?

5. How is money raised to get the students to college?

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