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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do the Freedom Writers do after their first year in college?
(a) Visit South America.
(b) Go to an impoverished country and build houses.
(c) Tour Europe.
(d) Go to China.

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

4. Besides moving forward, what are the Freedom Writers doing?
(a) Pulling family members and friends along too.
(b) Writing novels, poetry, and newspaper or magazine articles.
(c) Serving as volunteers.
(d) Volunteering at the Museum of Tolerance.

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

6. Who says, "Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy"?
(a) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(b) Zlata Filipovic.
(c) Miep Gies.
(d) Anne Frank.

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

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

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

10. What happens to the computers after the students graduate?
(a) The computers are given to the 35 students with the highest grade point average.
(b) The computers are given to the Distinguished Scholars.
(c) The computers are sent to an elementary school.
(d) The computers are moved to the media center.

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

12. What does a truly self-reliant person do, according to Chapter V?
(a) Not rely on anyone.
(b) Not accept help from anyone.
(c) Find his weak link and strengthen it.
(d) Lean on family and friends for support.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who said, "The best method of overcoming your obstacles is the team method"?

2. In the book, "Animal Farm", what is a Boxer?

3. Why is a student asking the question, "To sign or not to sign"?

4. Why does a teacher say they do not read black literature in class?

5. What reporter does a student mention from the Los Angeles Times?

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