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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. Where do the Freedom Writers mentor students?
(a) Newport Beach Elementary School.
(b) Butler Elementary School.
(c) Long Beach Elementary School.
(d) Wilson Elementary School.

2. Why at the Lincoln Monument does Gruwell begin to understand why moms cry at school plays and graduations?
(a) She is not looking forward to losing the students after they graduated.
(b) She is worried about getting everyone back on the buses.
(c) She can't find one of the students.
(d) She is so proud of the Freedom Writers.

3. What do the students do when they walk down the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in the spring of 1997?
(a) Light candles and make speeches about freedom and tolerance.
(b) Meet with their local senators.
(c) They join hands and retrace the steps Martin Luther King Jr. walked.
(d) Begin singing a freedom song.

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

5. Who says, "Little black boys and black girls are able to join hands with little white boys and white girls"?
(a) Eldredge Cleaver.
(b) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(c) Rosa Parks.
(d) Malcom X.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the book that has Celie as the main character?

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

3. What starts a series of fights between Hispanics and Blacks at school during the fall of 1996?

4. What civil rights activist do the Freedom Writers meet days before the second college semester begins?

5. What article by Peter Maass does a student read his/her sophomore year?

Short Essay Questions

1. After the students walk down the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, what does someone suggest?

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

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

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

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

6. When they are in Washington, D.C., what do some students do when they see swastikas?

7. Why are little kids bad in the projects?

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

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

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

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