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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 is different about rooming arrangements when the Freedom Writers go to New York?
(a) Gruwell chooses who rooms with who.
(b) The students stay with private individuals.
(c) The students stay with holocaust survivors.
(d) The students choose their roommates.

2. What does a junior student say about her stepfather during the fall semester?
(a) He loves her mother very much.
(b) He is never home.
(c) He is a professional alcoholic.
(d) He works hard.

3. Why does Tu donate computers?
(a) So no one recognizes the handwriting in diary entries.
(b) So every teacher at Wilson High has a computer in their classrooms.
(c) To set up a computer lab.
(d) Because there are no computers available at school.

4. Who challenges the Freedom Writers to not just talk, but "to walk the walk"?
(a) Harry Belafonte.
(b) Connie Cheung.
(c) John Tu.
(d) Erin Gruwell.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What poem does a student write after realizing living in the ghetto and having brown skin does not mean you cannot be successful?

2. One student has never been on a Freedom Writers trip before. Why does the student get to go to D.C.?

3. Whose album cover does the class analyze?

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

5. How does a mother of a student die of shortly before her Christmas Eve birthday?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In Diary 103, how many girls does the student know that go to college?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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