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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Cheryl Best inspire a student?
(a) The student realizes you do not need a father figure to do well.
(b) The student realizes s/he can go to medical school also.
(c) The student realizes that college is possible for him/her.
(d) The student realizes that hard work makes up for a poor background.

2. After Christmas 1997, what do the students have to do to accept an award?
(a) Submit their diaries.
(b) Go to New York City.
(c) Mentor other students.
(d) Fly to Washington, D.C..

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

4. How is money raised to get the students to college?
(a) Concerts.
(b) A nonprofit organization is created.
(c) Sell the rights to their diaries.
(d) Basketball tournaments.

5. During the diversity seminar, what does a student remember about how his/her brother died during his/her sophomore year?
(a) How he died from a knife wound.
(b) How he died from a brain tumor.
(c) How he died from a shooting.
(d) How he died in a car accident.

6. How does a mother of a student die of shortly before her Christmas Eve birthday?
(a) Cancer.
(b) Heroin overdose.
(c) Shot in the chest.
(d) Raped and left for dead.

7. 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 slob.
(d) Because he is a runner and runs quickly.

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

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

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

11. Until the students found the safety of Room 203, what did they see to be a solution to their problems?
(a) Sex.
(b) Gangs.
(c) Drugs.
(d) Violence.

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

13. In Chapter V, to where does a student take a road trip with her friends?
(a) Las Vegas.
(b) San Francisco.
(c) Mexico.
(d) Los Angeles.

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

15. What does Gruwell tell Zlata on the phone spring of 1996?
(a) Gruwell thanks her for coming to see the class.
(b) Zlata is the inspiration for the latest writing project.
(c) That Gruwell is going to Bosnia.
(d) Gruwell asks her if she comes again.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why do the students sign an honor code?

3. What happens after a student drives John Tu to his car?

4. After Christmas 1997, what award do the students win?

5. What do the Freedom Writers want the readers of their book to do?

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