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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. Why does a teacher say they do not read black literature in class?

2. What Christmas song is twisted during a sorority hazing?

3. Why does a teacher call the diary writer of entry 70 lazy?

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

5. Why is it difficult for some students to take the SATs?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does a student mention that her/his mother said that "Silence gets you nowhere in life"?

2. Why does a student have trouble editing a story about an abortion?

3. How does Gruwell spend the summer of 1996?

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

5. 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"?

6. What magical event occurs at the Lincoln Memorial?

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

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

9. Who is Peter Maass?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does it mean "World peace is only a dream because people won't allow themselves and others around them to simply be peanuts"? Explain the meaning of the phrase, and why a student compares people to peanuts. How do peanuts compare to people? What happens if people are allowed to be peanuts? What does people living in harmony have to do with the appearance of peanuts?

Essay Topic 2

During the spring semester of 1996, Tommy makes a statement: "They say America is the 'Land of the Free and home of the Brave,' but what's so free about a land where people get killed?" What does Tommy mean by this statement? What examples does he give to demonstrate what he means by this statement? Why does Tommy make this statement? What is he comparing when he makes this statement?

Essay Topic 3

The motto of the American Jewish Committee that issues the Micah Award is "Whoever saves one life saves the world entire." What does that statement mean? How does that apply to Zlata? How does that statement apply to Anne Frank and those who helped her family? How does that statement apply to Gruwell and the Freedom Writers?

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