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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What is the name of the book that has Celie as the main character?
(a) Scared Silent.
(b) Their Eyes Were Watching God.
(c) The Color Purple.
(d) Catcher in the Rye.

5. During the diversity seminar, what does a student remember about how his/her brother died during his/her sophomore year?
(a) How he died from a brain tumor.
(b) How he died from a shooting.
(c) How he died in a car accident.
(d) How he died from a knife wound.

6. Why is a student amazed at being chosen to speak in front of Barbara Boxer, their senator?
(a) The student has a speech impediment.
(b) The student is deaf and speaks with sign language.
(c) Because the student has done some very outrageous things over the years.
(d) The student does not have good grades.

7. How does one student describe Ritalin?
(a) It has the power to control like a lasso on a horse.
(b) It makes you dizzy like being on a carnival ride.
(c) It is like taking speed.
(d) It makes you drowsy.

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

9. Why is it difficult for some students to take the SATs?
(a) Some parents cannot help complete applications and others cannot afford the application fee.
(b) They do not have the educational background to do well.
(c) They do not have transportation to get where the test is given.
(d) The students have learning disabilities.

10. What poem does a student write after realizing living in the ghetto and having brown skin does not mean you cannot be successful?
(a) You Say, They Say, We Say.
(b) So Say What You Will.
(c) They Say, I Say.
(d) Say it Isn't So.

11. In Chapter V, what illness runs in a student's family?
(a) Cancer of the liver.
(b) Clinical depression.
(c) Congenital heart defects.
(d) Cystic fibrosis.

12. What novel inspires one of the student's to try to write her own book?
(a) Anne of Green Gables by Montgomery.
(b) Beauty by Robin McKinley.
(c) Dawn by V.C. Andrews.
(d) Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice.

13. In Chapter V, to where does a student take a road trip with her friends?
(a) Las Vegas.
(b) San Francisco.
(c) Los Angeles.
(d) Mexico.

14. Where is Gruwell the day before the junior year begins?
(a) France.
(b) Long Beach.
(c) Newport Beach.
(d) Dublin.

15. What does Gruwell do the summer of 1996?
(a) Look for a new job.
(b) Teach at Cal State.
(c) Teach at National University and go to Europe.
(d) Work at Nordstrom's and the Marriott.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is different about rooming arrangements when the Freedom Writers go to New York?

2. Why do the students and Gruwell have to climb out the window of the school one night?

3. Who said, "The best method of overcoming your obstacles is the team method"?

4. Although their destinations after high school are different, what is still the same for the Freedom Writers?

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

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