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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What civil rights activist do the Freedom Writers meet days before the second college semester begins?
(a) Rosa Parks.
(b) Celeste Wiley.
(c) Lurma Rackley.
(d) Harry Belafonte.

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

3. Why at the Lincoln Monument does Gruwell begin to understand why moms cry at school plays and graduations?
(a) She is so proud of the Freedom Writers.
(b) She is not looking forward to losing the students after they graduated.
(c) She can't find one of the students.
(d) She is worried about getting everyone back on the buses.

4. 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 carton of milk is thrown.
(c) A Hispanic student steals something from a Black student.
(d) Someone starts name calling.

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

6. What does a student want to tell a prisoner in West Virginia?
(a) To write an apology letter to the family of the man he murdered.
(b) To think how he can be an influence even though he is in jail.
(c) That he must tell the judge he is innocent so he can be with his daughter.
(d) To be on good behavior so he can get out soon.

7. What novel inspires one of the student's to try to write her own book?
(a) Beauty by Robin McKinley.
(b) Dawn by V.C. Andrews.
(c) Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice.
(d) Anne of Green Gables by Montgomery.

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

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

10. Why is a student asking the question, "To sign or not to sign"?
(a) The student is trying to decide whether to go to college or play minor league baseball.
(b) The student is trying to decide whether to play professional soccer.
(c) The player is trying to decide whether to play professional basketball.
(d) The student is trying to decide whether to play professional football or not.

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

12. Why do the students need a receptionist every class period?
(a) They are receiving so much mail.
(b) To teach them how to behave in certain social situations.
(c) To help write letters.
(d) They have so many visitors.

13. After Christmas 1997, what award do the students win?
(a) Mies Giep Award.
(b) Freedom Award.
(c) Spirit of Anne Frank Award.
(d) Martin Luther King, Jr., Award.

14. What is different about rooming arrangements when the Freedom Writers go to New York?
(a) The students stay with private individuals.
(b) The students choose their roommates.
(c) The students stay with holocaust survivors.
(d) Gruwell chooses who rooms with who.

15. What does the student who used to play park league and Pop Warner football receive?
(a) A scholarship to play basketball.
(b) A scholarship to play baseball.
(c) A contract to play pro ball.
(d) A full-ride scholarship to a PAC-10 school.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does a student get kicked off the basketball team this senior year?

3. Why does a student say John Tu gives instead of handouts?

4. Who does a student compare him/herself to when the student says "I've probably witnessed more dead bodies than a ______________."

5. Why, a few weeks before graduation, does a student have to give up his dream of attending a prestigious technical school?

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