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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Why do the students and Gruwell have to climb out the window of the school one night?
(a) Because they are not supposed to be in the building after hours.
(b) Because there is a gang fight outside the front door.
(c) So the alarms don't go off.
(d) That is how they get into the school.

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

5. 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.

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

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

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

9. What is the prom queen's native country?
(a) Nicaragua.
(b) Peru.
(c) Mexico.
(d) Bosnia.

10. How is money raised for a trip to Washington, D.C.?
(a) A basketball game.
(b) A bake sale.
(c) A concert.
(d) Donations from wealthy donors.

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

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

13. Who wrote, "Who so should be a man, must be a nonconformist"?
(a) Whitman.
(b) Emerson.
(c) Poe.
(d) Thoreau.

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

15. Why is it difficult for some students to take the SATs?
(a) The students have learning disabilities.
(b) They do not have transportation to get where the test is given.
(c) They do not have the educational background to do well.
(d) Some parents cannot help complete applications and others cannot afford the application fee.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Gruwell feel guilty when she drives students home if they stay late after school?

2. When one of the juniors was twelve, how did her grandmother die?

3. What is a student referring to when she says she is a loving girl, but there is pain in her heart?

4. When the students walk down the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, what motto do they chant?

5. Where do the Freedom Writers mentor students?

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