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

2. What does a student talk about at the diversity seminar?
(a) The gang the student belongs to.
(b) The student's abusive father.
(c) How a best friend died in a gang war.
(d) The books the student has read that influence him.

3. What does a truly self-reliant person do, according to Chapter V?
(a) Find his weak link and strengthen it.
(b) Not rely on anyone.
(c) Not accept help from anyone.
(d) Lean on family and friends for support.

4. In Chapter V, what illness runs in a student's family?
(a) Cystic fibrosis.
(b) Clinical depression.
(c) Cancer of the liver.
(d) Congenital heart defects.

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 finally has good grades.
(c) Because the student's father is in Mexico.
(d) Because the student no longer has to help with a sick brother.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does a student feel after editing a story about an abortion?

2. Why does a teacher say they do not read black literature in class?

3. What do the students do when they walk down the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in the spring of 1997?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Since Europe is over a year away, what takes precedence in Gruwell's plans after graduation?

2. Why are little kids bad in the projects?

3. Why does a student mention that her/his mother said that "Silence gets you nowhere in life"?

4. Why does a student have to clean his/her mother's blood off the wall?

5. What do the Freedom Writers want readers of their book to do?

6. Why does a student have trouble editing a story about an abortion?

7. Why is it difficult for Gruwell to get permission to teach the students their senior year?

8. Why it Christmas Eve so difficult for the student who writes Diary 113?

9. What does Gruwell do after the student's graduate?

10. Why did a student charge a Coke machine when s/he was young?

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