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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What program is created to teach tolerance to kids who feel as if they don't fit in?
(a) Celebrating Diversity Through Sports.
(b) Celebrating Diversity Through Literature.
(c) Diversity Through Mentoring.
(d) Celebrating Diversity Through the Arts.

3. Why is one student not excited about making a book of events from their lives?
(a) Because the student thinks everyone should write their own book.
(b) Because the student does not like being anonymous.
(c) The student would rather write fiction than be reminded of events s/he wishes to suppress.
(d) Because the student does feel their writing is very good.

4. What poem does a student write after realizing living in the ghetto and having brown skin does not mean you cannot be successful?
(a) Say it Isn't So.
(b) They Say, I Say.
(c) So Say What You Will.
(d) You Say, They Say, We Say.

5. Where is Gruwell the day before the junior year begins?
(a) Newport Beach.
(b) Long Beach.
(c) Dublin.
(d) France.

6. When the students are speaking at an elementary school, what icebreaker question brings nearly everyone forward?
(a) "Has anyone seen someone get shot before?"
(b) "Who has had a family member murdered?"
(c) "Who only has one parent?"
(d) "Who has heard of Anne Frank?"

7. Why does a student say John Tu gives instead of handouts?
(a) Scholarships.
(b) Hope.
(c) Jobs.
(d) Inspiration.

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

9. 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.

10. Why, a few weeks before graduation, does a student have to give up his dream of attending a prestigious technical school?
(a) His father is ill.
(b) He does not get a scholarship.
(c) He flunks several of his classes.
(d) His mother dies.

11. What article by Peter Maass does a student read his/her sophomore year?
(a) Ground Zero.
(b) Bosnia, a First-Hand Persepective.
(c) Bosnia: War or Religious Cleansing?
(d) The Bosnia War.

12. Why does Gruwell feel guilty when she drives students home if they stay late after school?
(a) She feels bad to keep them at school so late.
(b) She feels bad that she cannot take the students to school also.
(c) Where the students live is very unsafe compared to Gruwell's neighborhood.
(d) She feels bad that the students have to help with lesson plans.

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

14. Why do the students have a particular place they want to visit after walking down the steps of the Lincoln Memorial?
(a) They know they may never return to Washington, D.C.
(b) They always wanted to travel abroard.
(c) They want to see the national library.
(d) That is where their journey began.

15. What reporter does a student mention from the Los Angeles Times?
(a) Anita Wright.
(b) Nellie WIlliams.
(c) Nancy Phillips.
(d) Nancy Wride.

Short Answer Questions

1. A student who wants to be a aeronautical engineer gets to go to _______.

2. What does a student's mother do about a teacher who doesn't read black literature?

3. Who says, "Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy"?

4. Why does a student's mother usually get twice as many presents on Christmas Eve as everyone else?

5. Whose album cover does the class analyze?

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