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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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) So Say What You Will.
(b) You Say, They Say, We Say.
(c) Say it Isn't So.
(d) They Say, I Say.

5. 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 her husband is sorry for the years he isn't there for the family.
(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.

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

7. Where do the Freedom Writers mentor students?
(a) Butler Elementary School.
(b) Newport Beach Elementary School.
(c) Wilson Elementary School.
(d) Long Beach Elementary School.

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

9. Who challenges the Freedom Writers to not just talk, but "to walk the walk"?
(a) Harry Belafonte.
(b) Erin Gruwell.
(c) Connie Cheung.
(d) John Tu.

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

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

12. Although their destinations after high school are different, what is still the same for the Freedom Writers?
(a) Their common goal.
(b) They are mentoring kids from the projects.
(c) They are all attending college.
(d) Their full-ride scholarships.

13. A student who wants to be a aeronautical engineer gets to go to _______.
(a) MIT.
(b) UCLA.
(c) NASA's Johnson Space Center.
(d) Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena.

14. Why doesn't Gruwell cheer when students get excited about making another trip after touring the Lincoln Memorial?
(a) Their funds are getting low and they do not have as many sponsors any more.
(b) She is too tired.
(c) She is not sure that she wants to take another trip so soon.
(d) She has to deal with practical matters of the trip.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the students and Gruwell have to climb out the window of the school one night?

2. What is the prom queen's native country?

3. What does the student who used to play park league and Pop Warner football receive?

4. What does a junior student say about her stepfather during the fall semester?

5. Why does a student have to be head of the household and worry about rent and car payments Senior year?

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