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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 does a student say after not taking the opportunity to sing to Jopie and Lies?
(a) "Only those who take advantage of opportunities in life succeed."
(b) "Silence gets you nowhere in life."
(c) "A missed opportunity can never be made up."
(d) "Success comes only to those who take advantage of opportunities."

2. Why is the Guess? Company sponsoring a trip for some of the Freedom Writers?
(a) Because they donate twenty percent of their profits to needy causes.
(b) Because they graduated from Wilson High School.
(c) Because the founders are Jewish and had to flee Europe during the Holocaust.
(d) Because they are minority entrepreneurs and wish to help others succeed.

3. Who says, "Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy"?
(a) Anne Frank.
(b) Zlata Filipovic.
(c) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(d) Miep Gies.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What Christmas song is twisted during a sorority hazing?

2. What does a student's mother do about a teacher who doesn't read black literature?

3. Why does Tu donate computers?

4. During the diversity seminar, what does a student remember about how his/her brother died during his/her sophomore year?

5. Who wrote, "Who so should be a man, must be a nonconformist"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What tragic event makes the Freedom Writers realize how fortunate they are?

2. What circumstances lead to a student being offered a job from John Tu?

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

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

5. How does Gruwell spend the summer of 1996?

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

7. Why does reading "Catcher in the Rye" make a student begin to think about the consequences of suicide?

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

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

10. Why is it so unusual that the Freedom Writers win the Spirit of Anne Frank Award?

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