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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 civil rights activist do the Freedom Writers meet days before the second college semester begins?
(a) Rosa Parks.
(b) Harry Belafonte.
(c) Celeste Wiley.
(d) Lurma Rackley.

2. Who helps Gruwell get permission to teach the seniors?
(a) John Tu.
(b) The teachers' union.
(c) Dr. Cohn and Karin Polacheck.
(d) Teachers at the high school.

3. Who said, "The best method of overcoming your obstacles is the team method"?
(a) Colin Powell.
(b) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(c) Eldridge Cleaver.
(d) Maya Angelou.

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

5. Why does a student say John Tu gives instead of handouts?
(a) Scholarships.
(b) Inspiration.
(c) Jobs.
(d) Hope.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. After Christmas 1997, what award do the students win?

3. Why does a student's mother usually get twice as many presents on Christmas Eve as everyone else?

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

5. Why do the students sign an honor code?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why is it so unusual that the Freedom Writers win the Spirit of Anne Frank Award?

6. What magical event occurs at the Lincoln Memorial?

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

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

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

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

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