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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Why does Gruwell feel guilty when she drives students home if they stay late after school?
(a) She feels bad that the students have to help with lesson plans.
(b) Where the students live is very unsafe compared to Gruwell's neighborhood.
(c) She feels bad that she cannot take the students to school also.
(d) She feels bad to keep them at school so late.

7. What road less traveled does a student decide to take Senior year?
(a) To become a doctor.
(b) To graduate from high school.
(c) The road to college.
(d) To leave the gang.

8. When one of the juniors was twelve, how did her grandmother die?
(a) From a heart attack.
(b) From a fall down stairs.
(c) From a beating by the student's father.
(d) From burns allegedly inflicted by the student's father.

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

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

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

12. What do the Freedom Writers remember when the pressure of their new lives gets too intense?
(a) John Tu's encouragement.
(b) All the awards they receive.
(c) Words of Anne Frank.
(d) The lessons learned in Gruwell's class.

13. When the students are speaking at an elementary school, what icebreaker question brings nearly everyone forward?
(a) "Who only has one parent?"
(b) "Has anyone seen someone get shot before?"
(c) "Who has had a family member murdered?"
(d) "Who has heard of Anne Frank?"

14. Why do the students have a particular place they want to visit after walking down the steps of the Lincoln Memorial?
(a) They always wanted to travel abroard.
(b) They want to see the national library.
(c) They know they may never return to Washington, D.C.
(d) That is where their journey began.

15. What happens to Teres's father?
(a) He is killed in a drive-by shooting.
(b) He overdoses on crack.
(c) He is shot in the head.
(d) He is shoved in front of a train.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why is a student amazed at being chosen to speak in front of Barbara Boxer, their senator?

3. Why do the students sign an honor code?

4. What civil rights activist do the Freedom Writers meet days before the second college semester begins?

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

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