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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter VII, Senior Year - Fall 1997.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What important lesson does one student learn during her freshman year?
(a) That school can be interesting.
(b) People do change.
(c) That Gruwell is an extraordinary teacher.
(d) How to study.

2. What are the only kind of heroes one 15-year-old is familiar with before reading about Anne Frank?
(a) Gang leaders.
(b) Super heroes in tights.
(c) Civil Rights leaders.
(d) Good teachers.

3. Where do the Freedom Writers mentor students?
(a) Wilson Elementary School.
(b) Newport Beach Elementary School.
(c) Long Beach Elementary School.
(d) Butler Elementary School.

4. How does a mother of a student die of shortly before her Christmas Eve birthday?
(a) Shot in the chest.
(b) Raped and left for dead.
(c) Cancer.
(d) Heroin overdose.

5. What does a student want to tell a prisoner in West Virginia?
(a) To be on good behavior so he can get out soon.
(b) That he must tell the judge he is innocent so he can be with his daughter.
(c) To think how he can be an influence even though he is in jail.
(d) To write an apology letter to the family of the man he murdered.

Short Answer Questions

1. In her thank you letter, what does Zlata tell the students not to forget?

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

3. What does one student realize after meeting the diversity panelists?

4. What poem does a student write after realizing living in the ghetto and having brown skin does not mean you cannot be successful?

5. Why can't a student go to a movie with her best friend?

(see the answer key)

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