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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is the Guess? Company sponsoring a trip for some of the Freedom Writers?
(a) Because they donate twenty percent of their profits to needy causes.
(b) Because they graduated from Wilson High School.
(c) Because they are minority entrepreneurs and wish to help others succeed.
(d) Because the founders are Jewish and had to flee Europe during the Holocaust.

2. What Christmas song is twisted during a sorority hazing?
(a) White Christmas.
(b) Jingle Bells.
(c) Deck the Halls.
(d) Here Comes Santa Claus.

3. 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.

4. What does Gruwell do the summer of 1996?
(a) Work at Nordstrom's and the Marriott.
(b) Teach at National University and go to Europe.
(c) Look for a new job.
(d) Teach at Cal State.

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

6. What happens after a student drives John Tu to his car?
(a) Tu tells the student to get a better car.
(b) The student gets a flat tire.
(c) Tu gives the student money for the ride.
(d) Tu offers the student a job.

7. What starts a series of fights between Hispanics and Blacks at school during the fall of 1996?
(a) Someone starts name calling.
(b) A Hispanic student steals something from a Black student.
(c) Someone takes a Black student's seat on the bus.
(d) A carton of milk is thrown.

8. What museum do the students visit in D.C.?
(a) Smithsonian.
(b) Holocaust Museum.
(c) Library of Congress.
(d) National Gallery of Art.

9. Why does a teacher say they do not read black literature in class?
(a) Because it all has sex, fornication, drugs, and cussing.
(b) Because the teacher prefers to read literature by Hispanics.
(c) Because there isn't time.
(d) Because there aren't any good black writers.

10. 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.

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

12. After Christmas 1997, what award do the students win?
(a) Mies Giep Award.
(b) Freedom Award.
(c) Spirit of Anne Frank Award.
(d) Martin Luther King, Jr., Award.

13. What does a student talk about at the diversity seminar?
(a) How a best friend died in a gang war.
(b) The student's abusive father.
(c) The books the student has read that influence him.
(d) The gang the student belongs to.

14. Why does a student have to be head of the household and worry about rent and car payments Senior year?
(a) The student's father takes off with the families small bit of savings.
(b) The student's mother is ill and father is nowhere to be found.
(c) The student's parents are murdered.
(d) The student's cousin is murdered and parents leave the country.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why doesn't Gruwell cheer when students get excited about making another trip after touring the Lincoln Memorial?

3. What happens when a student gives her/himself an F?

4. What program is created to teach tolerance to kids who feel as if they don't fit in?

5. What article by Peter Maass does a student read his/her sophomore year?

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