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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. Who said, "The best method of overcoming your obstacles is the team method"?
2. What award do the students receive from the American Jewish Committee?
3. What is the prom queen's native country?
4. What does a student want to tell a prisoner in West Virginia?
5. Why at the Lincoln Monument does Gruwell begin to understand why moms cry at school plays and graduations?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why is Gruwell scared sometimes when she drives students home?
2. What does Gruwell do after the student's graduate?
3. What magical event occurs at the Lincoln Memorial?
4. Why does a student feel that "National Spokesperson for the Plight of Black People" is stamped on her forehead?
5. Why is getting kicked off the basketball team eventually a positive thing for Joan?
6. Why is it so unusual that the Freedom Writers win the Spirit of Anne Frank Award?
7. What does the prom queen write about her life?
8. What do the Freedom Writers want readers of their book to do?
9. Since Europe is over a year away, what takes precedence in Gruwell's plans after graduation?
10. After the students walk down the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, what does someone suggest?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The students study Ralph Waldo Emerson when learning about self-reliance. What does this quote by Emerson mean: "Who so should be a man, must be a nonconformist"? How does the quote relate to self-reliance? From their diary entries, list examples of how the students are becoming more self-reliant. How is Gruwell helping the students become more self-reliant? How are the circumstances in their daily lives making the students more self-reliant?
Essay Topic 2
In Diary 107, a student compares the students at an elementary school to lotus flowers. Why does the student compare these children to lotus flowers? In what type of environment do lotus flowers grow? How is the environment of a lotus plant similar to the environment the children from the elementary school live in?
Essay Topic 3
During the fall semester of the sophomore year, a student struggles with the decision of whether to protect a "homie" and lie in court or to tell the truth. Before the student went to courtroom, what does s/he plan to say? What changes the student's mind? What conversation with his/her mother may be a factor in the student's decision? What circumstances in the student's own life may influence the student's decision? What does the student finally decide to do? Why?
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