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

2. Until the students found the safety of Room 203, what did they see to be a solution to their problems?
(a) Violence.
(b) Drugs.
(c) Sex.
(d) Gangs.

3. What road less traveled does a student decide to take Senior year?
(a) To graduate from high school.
(b) The road to college.
(c) To leave the gang.
(d) To become a doctor.

4. When the students are speaking at an elementary school, what icebreaker question brings nearly everyone forward?
(a) "Who has heard of Anne Frank?"
(b) "Who has had a family member murdered?"
(c) "Has anyone seen someone get shot before?"
(d) "Who only has one parent?"

5. What happens when a student gives her/himself an F?
(a) Gruwell gets angry and says that if you fail, I fail.
(b) The student is sent to the principal's office.
(c) The student is dropped from Gruwell's class.
(d) The student is expelled.

Short Answer Questions

1. What award do the students receive from the American Jewish Committee?

2. Where is Gruwell the day before the junior year begins?

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

4. When one of the juniors was twelve, how did her grandmother die?

5. What do the Freedom Writers do after their first year in college?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why are little kids bad in the projects?

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

4. Why does a student write that she is a loving girl and mention that she cries when she read "The Color Purple"?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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