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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 do the students sign an honor code?

2. In Chapter V, what illness runs in a student's family?

3. What is a student referring to when she says she is a loving girl, but there is pain in her heart?

4. Why does a student get kicked off the basketball team this senior year?

5. Why is a student amazed at being chosen to speak in front of Barbara Boxer, their senator?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does a student have to clean his/her mother's blood off the wall?

2. Why does the Guess? Company wish to help the students get to New York City to accept an award?

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

4. Why does the character Celie in "The Color Purple" remind a student about her Uncle Joe?

5. How does Gruwell spend the summer of 1996?

6. What tragic event makes the Freedom Writers realize how fortunate they are?

7. After the students walk down the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, what does someone suggest?

8. Who is Peter Maass?

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

10. Why did a student charge a Coke machine when s/he was young?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Zlata says during her visit that the Bosnian Children become "soldiers" and the soldiers became "children". What does Zlata mean by that statement? What happens to children during a war? How do soldiers behave when trying to achieve their goals? How are the roles reversed?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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