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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What Christmas song is twisted during a sorority hazing?
2. What do the Freedom Writers do after their first year in college?
3. How does a student feel after editing a story about an abortion?
4. What does a junior student say about her stepfather during the fall semester?
5. What do the students do when they walk down the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in the spring of 1997?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why is getting kicked off the basketball team eventually a positive thing for Joan?
2. Why does a student write that she is a loving girl and mention that she cries when she read "The Color Purple"?
3. Why are little kids bad in the projects?
4. What does Gruwell do after the student's graduate?
5. Why did a student charge a Coke machine when s/he was young?
6. Why is it so unusual that the Freedom Writers win the Spirit of Anne Frank Award?
7. What tragic event makes the Freedom Writers realize how fortunate they are?
8. What do the Freedom Writers want readers of their book to do?
9. After the students walk down the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, what does someone suggest?
10. What does the prom queen write about her life?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
When Zlata comes to visit and people ask her her nationality, she tells them "I'm a human being." Why is it strange that adults ask this question? What happens if instead of labeling people, people are treated as individuals? What does the writer of Diary 47 say about this incident? How is the world a better place if we are all treated just as human beings? What happens if there are no labels?
Essay Topic 2
Write why Gruwell decides that she is being hypocritical at the beginning of the sophomore year. What is hypocrisy? How is Gruwell being hypocritical? How is Gruwell using labels to describe people? What is the danger of stereotyping? How many of the teachers actually are out to get Gruwell? Who helps Gruwell understand her hypocrisy?
Essay Topic 3
A mother tells her child in Diary 99 that "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger!" A person the student looks up to says "Adversity makes warriors of us all." What do each of these statements mean? How can a person become stronger through difficulties? How can adversity make a person a warrior? How does the student feel about these statements at first? What person inspires the student? How does this person help the student to realize the possibilities that life holds?
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