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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Tu donate computers?
(a) To set up a computer lab.
(b) So every teacher at Wilson High has a computer in their classrooms.
(c) So no one recognizes the handwriting in diary entries.
(d) Because there are no computers available at school.

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

3. 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) That is where their journey began.
(c) They know they may never return to Washington, D.C.
(d) They always wanted to travel abroard.

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

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

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

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

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

9. How is money raised to get the students to college?
(a) Concerts.
(b) A nonprofit organization is created.
(c) Basketball tournaments.
(d) Sell the rights to their diaries.

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

11. Although their destinations after high school are different, what is still the same for the Freedom Writers?
(a) Their common goal.
(b) Their full-ride scholarships.
(c) They are mentoring kids from the projects.
(d) They are all attending college.

12. 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) Soldier in a war.
(d) Doctor.

13. Who said, "The best method of overcoming your obstacles is the team method"?
(a) Maya Angelou.
(b) Eldridge Cleaver.
(c) Colin Powell.
(d) Martin Luther King, Jr.

14. What happens after a student drives John Tu to his car?
(a) Tu offers the student a job.
(b) Tu gives the student money for the ride.
(c) Tu tells the student to get a better car.
(d) The student gets a flat tire.

15. What does a student say after not taking the opportunity to sing to Jopie and Lies?
(a) "A missed opportunity can never be made up."
(b) "Only those who take advantage of opportunities in life succeed."
(c) "Success comes only to those who take advantage of opportunities."
(d) "Silence gets you nowhere in life."

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does a teacher call the diary writer of entry 70 lazy?

2. Where do the Freedom Writers mentor students?

3. What program is created to teach tolerance to kids who feel as if they don't fit in?

4. What do the students do when they walk down the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in the spring of 1997?

5. What civil rights activist do the Freedom Writers meet days before the second college semester begins?

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