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

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

3. After Christmas 1997, what do the students have to do to accept an award?
(a) Mentor other students.
(b) Go to New York City.
(c) Submit their diaries.
(d) Fly to Washington, D.C..

4. What starts a series of fights between Hispanics and Blacks at school during the fall of 1996?
(a) A carton of milk is thrown.
(b) Someone starts name calling.
(c) Someone takes a Black student's seat on the bus.
(d) A Hispanic student steals something from a Black student.

5. Why do the students sign an honor code?
(a) So there is not any further cheating on exams.
(b) So there is not any further fighting.
(c) So no one embellishes or sensationalizes their stories.
(d) So there is not any further stealing of personal belongings.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who says, "Little black boys and black girls are able to join hands with little white boys and white girls"?

3. Why does a student have to be head of the household and worry about rent and car payments Senior year?

4. What road less traveled does a student decide to take Senior year?

5. Who does a student compare him/herself to when the student says "I've probably witnessed more dead bodies than a ______________."

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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