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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the students do when they walk down the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in the spring of 1997?
(a) Meet with their local senators.
(b) Light candles and make speeches about freedom and tolerance.
(c) Begin singing a freedom song.
(d) They join hands and retrace the steps Martin Luther King Jr. walked.

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

3. 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 brain tumor.
(c) How he died from a shooting.
(d) How he died from a knife wound.

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

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

6. To whom does the class give a copy of their diaries when in Washington, D.C.?
(a) Their senator.
(b) U. S. Secretary of Education.
(c) Their congressman.
(d) President of the United States.

7. What does a student want to tell a prisoner in West Virginia?
(a) That he must tell the judge he is innocent so he can be with his daughter.
(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) To be on good behavior so he can get out soon.

8. One student has never been on a Freedom Writers trip before. Why does the student get to go to D.C.?
(a) Because the student's father is in Mexico.
(b) Because the student finally has good grades.
(c) Because someone donates the money so the student can go.
(d) Because the student no longer has to help with a sick brother.

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

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

11. What museum do the students visit in D.C.?
(a) Smithsonian.
(b) Library of Congress.
(c) National Gallery of Art.
(d) Holocaust Museum.

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

13. Where is Gruwell the day before the junior year begins?
(a) Long Beach.
(b) Dublin.
(c) France.
(d) Newport Beach.

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

15. What were Rosa Parks and the other blacks called who rode buses to fight racism?
(a) Riders for Black Rights.
(b) Blacks for Freedom.
(c) Freedom Fighters.
(d) Freedom Riders.

Short Answer Questions

1. What program is created to teach tolerance to kids who feel as if they don't fit in?

2. Why does a student call her mother's boyfriend a tornado?

3. How is money raised to get the students to college?

4. What starts a series of fights between Hispanics and Blacks at school during the fall of 1996?

5. What do the Freedom Writers remember when the pressure of their new lives gets too intense?

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