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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 reporter does a student mention from the Los Angeles Times?
2. Who helps Gruwell get permission to teach the seniors?
3. What do the Freedom Writers remember when the pressure of their new lives gets too intense?
4. Why is a student amazed at being chosen to speak in front of Barbara Boxer, their senator?
5. What happens after a student drives John Tu to his car?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does the character Celie in "The Color Purple" remind a student about her Uncle Joe?
2. Why did a student charge a Coke machine when s/he was young?
3. What do the Freedom Writers want readers of their book to do?
4. Who is Peter Maass?
5. Since Europe is over a year away, what takes precedence in Gruwell's plans after graduation?
6. What tragic event makes the Freedom Writers realize how fortunate they are?
7. Why does a student refer to choices s/he is making as if the student is a traveler in Frost's poem "The Road Not Taken"?
8. Why it Christmas Eve so difficult for the student who writes Diary 113?
9. Why does a student mention that her/his mother said that "Silence gets you nowhere in life"?
10. Who is a prisoner who writes the Freedom Writers from West Virginia?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
What comparisons can be made between Zlata and the Freedom Writers? How are Zlata and the Freedom Writers subjected to things that can make them victims? Why don't Zlata and the Freedom Writers become victims? How does writing help all of them? Provide examples from the foreword and the book.
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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