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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. After the students walk down the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, where do they wish to go next?
(a) Anne Frank's attic.
(b) The Library of Congress.
(c) Bosnia.
(d) The Smithsonian.

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

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

7. What do the Freedom Writers want the readers of their book to do?
(a) Volunteer with at-risk students.
(b) Pick up a pen and be a catalyst for change.
(c) Write to the students.
(d) Buy copies of the books and give them to students who need hope.

8. Why does a teacher call the diary writer of entry 70 lazy?
(a) Because the student says s/he is dyslexic.
(b) Because the student does not turn in homework.
(c) Because the student does not answer questions in class.
(d) Because the student draws pictures rather than taking notes in class.

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

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

11. Why does a student's mother usually get twice as many presents on Christmas Eve as everyone else?
(a) Because her husband is sorry for the years he isn't there for the family.
(b) Christmas Eve is her birthday.
(c) She doesn't get many present as a child and her parents are trying to make up for it.
(d) Because she has so many children.

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

13. How do the Freedom Writers hone their writing craft?
(a) They create a college course.
(b) They hire tutors.
(c) The school board brings in tutors.
(d) Gruwell and other teachers work with them one-on-one.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How is money raised for a trip to Washington, D.C.?

2. Why do the students need a receptionist every class period?

3. In Chapter V, what illness runs in a student's family?

4. Who are Jopie and Lies?

5. Why is a student amazed at being chosen to speak in front of Barbara Boxer, their senator?

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