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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who are Jopie and Lies?
(a) Anne Frank's aunt and uncle.
(b) Children from the family that hid the Franks during the war.
(c) Anne Frank's parents.
(d) Anne's best friends from school before the war.

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

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

5. Why does a student call her mother's boyfriend a tornado?
(a) Because he moves so quickly.
(b) Because after he hits, their apartment and the student's mother look like they've been in a tornado.
(c) Because he is a runner and runs quickly.
(d) Because he is a slob.

6. Who does a student compare him/herself to when the student says "I've probably witnessed more dead bodies than a ______________."
(a) Mortician.
(b) Police officer.
(c) Doctor.
(d) Soldier in a war.

7. Who wrote, "Who so should be a man, must be a nonconformist"?
(a) Whitman.
(b) Emerson.
(c) Poe.
(d) Thoreau.

8. What civil rights activist do the Freedom Writers meet days before the second college semester begins?
(a) Celeste Wiley.
(b) Lurma Rackley.
(c) Rosa Parks.
(d) Harry Belafonte.

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

10. What does the student who used to play park league and Pop Warner football receive?
(a) A contract to play pro ball.
(b) A scholarship to play baseball.
(c) A scholarship to play basketball.
(d) A full-ride scholarship to a PAC-10 school.

11. Why does a student get kicked off the basketball team this senior year?
(a) Drinking on school property.
(b) Her attitude.
(c) Skipping practices.
(d) Arrested for doing drugs.

12. Where do the Freedom Writers mentor students?
(a) Wilson Elementary School.
(b) Long Beach Elementary School.
(c) Butler Elementary School.
(d) Newport Beach Elementary School.

13. What award do the students receive from the American Jewish Committee?
(a) Freedom For All Award.
(b) Spirit of Anne Frank Award.
(c) The Martin Luther King, Jr., Freedom Award.
(d) The Micah Award.

14. How is money raised for a trip to Washington, D.C.?
(a) A concert.
(b) Donations from wealthy donors.
(c) A basketball game.
(d) A bake sale.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the students sign an honor code?

2. What happens to the computers after the students graduate?

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

4. How does a mother of a student die of shortly before her Christmas Eve birthday?

5. What does a student talk about at the diversity seminar?

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