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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does a student talk about at the diversity seminar?
(a) The student's abusive father.
(b) The gang the student belongs to.
(c) The books the student has read that influence him.
(d) How a best friend died in a gang war.

2. What article by Peter Maass does a student read his/her sophomore year?
(a) Bosnia: War or Religious Cleansing?
(b) Ground Zero.
(c) The Bosnia War.
(d) Bosnia, a First-Hand Persepective.

3. Who publishes the Freedom Writer's diaries?
(a) Doubleday.
(b) Inner City Press.
(c) HarperCollins.
(d) McGraw-Hill.

4. Why is the Guess? Company sponsoring a trip for some of the Freedom Writers?
(a) Because they graduated from Wilson High School.
(b) Because the founders are Jewish and had to flee Europe during the Holocaust.
(c) Because they donate twenty percent of their profits to needy causes.
(d) Because they are minority entrepreneurs and wish to help others succeed.

5. What do the Freedom Writers remember when the pressure of their new lives gets too intense?
(a) The lessons learned in Gruwell's class.
(b) All the awards they receive.
(c) John Tu's encouragement.
(d) Words of Anne Frank.

6. Who does a student compare him/herself to when the student says "I've probably witnessed more dead bodies than a ______________."
(a) Mortician.
(b) Police officer.
(c) Doctor.
(d) Soldier in a war.

7. Why does a student have to be head of the household and worry about rent and car payments Senior year?
(a) The student's mother is ill and father is nowhere to be found.
(b) The student's cousin is murdered and parents leave the country.
(c) The student's father takes off with the families small bit of savings.
(d) The student's parents are murdered.

8. Who helps Gruwell get permission to teach the seniors?
(a) Teachers at the high school.
(b) Dr. Cohn and Karin Polacheck.
(c) The teachers' union.
(d) John Tu.

9. In the book "Animal Farm", what is a Molly?
(a) A person who can't keep a secret.
(b) A person who works hard.
(c) A person who does not work hard.
(d) A person who gossips.

10. After Christmas 1997, what do the students have to do to accept an award?
(a) Go to New York City.
(b) Submit their diaries.
(c) Fly to Washington, D.C..
(d) Mentor other students.

11. Why do the students and Gruwell have to climb out the window of the school one night?
(a) So the alarms don't go off.
(b) Because there is a gang fight outside the front door.
(c) Because they are not supposed to be in the building after hours.
(d) That is how they get into the school.

12. What reporter does a student mention from the Los Angeles Times?
(a) Nancy Phillips.
(b) Nancy Wride.
(c) Nellie WIlliams.
(d) Anita Wright.

13. Why do the students have a particular place they want to visit after walking down the steps of the Lincoln Memorial?
(a) They want to see the national library.
(b) They know they may never return to Washington, D.C.
(c) They always wanted to travel abroard.
(d) That is where their journey began.

14. What happens when a student gives her/himself an F?
(a) The student is sent to the principal's office.
(b) Gruwell gets angry and says that if you fail, I fail.
(c) The student is expelled.
(d) The student is dropped from Gruwell's class.

15. What road less traveled does a student decide to take Senior year?
(a) The road to college.
(b) To become a doctor.
(c) To leave the gang.
(d) To graduate from high school.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the prom queen's native country?

2. What do the Freedom Writers do after their first year in college?

3. Who wrote, "Who so should be a man, must be a nonconformist"?

4. In the book, "Animal Farm", what is a Boxer?

5. Why do the students sign an honor code?

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