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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 happens to the computers after the students graduate?
(a) The computers are moved to the media center.
(b) The computers are given to the 35 students with the highest grade point average.
(c) The computers are given to the Distinguished Scholars.
(d) The computers are sent to an elementary school.

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

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

4. 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) Gangs.
(d) Sex.

5. How does Cheryl Best inspire a student?
(a) The student realizes that college is possible for him/her.
(b) The student realizes s/he can go to medical school also.
(c) The student realizes you do not need a father figure to do well.
(d) The student realizes that hard work makes up for a poor background.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What happens after a student drives John Tu to his car?

3. When the students walk down the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, what motto do they chant?

4. How is money raised to get the students to college?

5. Who publishes the Freedom Writer's diaries?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why are little kids bad in the projects?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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