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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What civil rights activist do the Freedom Writers meet days before the second college semester begins?
(a) Harry Belafonte.
(b) Celeste Wiley.
(c) Rosa Parks.
(d) Lurma Rackley.

2. What do the Freedom Writers do after their first year in college?
(a) Go to China.
(b) Visit South America.
(c) Go to an impoverished country and build houses.
(d) Tour Europe.

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

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Teres's father?

2. What happens after a student drives John Tu to his car?

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

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

5. What does Gruwell tell Zlata on the phone spring of 1996?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why is getting kicked off the basketball team eventually a positive thing for Joan?

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

4. Why is a student acting as receptionist in the classroom by Chapter VII?

5. When they are in Washington, D.C., what do some students do when they see swastikas?

6. Why does a student feel that "National Spokesperson for the Plight of Black People" is stamped on her forehead?

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

8. Why is it difficult for Gruwell to get permission to teach the students their senior year?

9. Why does a student refer to choices s/he is making as if the student is a traveler in Frost's poem "The Road Not Taken"?

10. Why is it so unusual that the Freedom Writers win the Spirit of Anne Frank Award?

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