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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the Freedom Writers do after their first year in college?
(a) Tour Europe.
(b) Go to an impoverished country and build houses.
(c) Visit South America.
(d) Go to China.

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

3. What poem does a student write after realizing living in the ghetto and having brown skin does not mean you cannot be successful?
(a) They Say, I Say.
(b) You Say, They Say, We Say.
(c) So Say What You Will.
(d) Say it Isn't So.

4. How is money raised to get the students to college?
(a) Sell the rights to their diaries.
(b) A nonprofit organization is created.
(c) Concerts.
(d) Basketball tournaments.

5. Why does a student get kicked off the basketball team this senior year?
(a) Her attitude.
(b) Arrested for doing drugs.
(c) Skipping practices.
(d) Drinking on school property.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when a student gives her/himself an F?

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

3. Why is the Guess? Company sponsoring a trip for some of the Freedom Writers?

4. In Chapter V, to where does a student take a road trip with her friends?

5. What is different about rooming arrangements when the Freedom Writers go to New York?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is getting kicked off the basketball team eventually a positive thing for Joan?

2. Why does the character Celie in "The Color Purple" remind a student about her Uncle Joe?

3. What does the prom queen write about her life?

4. Why does the Guess? Company wish to help the students get to New York City to accept an award?

5. Why is a student acting as receptionist in the classroom by Chapter VII?

6. Who is a prisoner who writes the Freedom Writers from West Virginia?

7. Why does a student feel that "National Spokesperson for the Plight of Black People" is stamped on her forehead?

8. Why is Gruwell scared sometimes when she drives students home?

9. How does Gruwell spend the summer of 1996?

10. What magical event occurs at the Lincoln Memorial?

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