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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 starts a series of fights between Hispanics and Blacks at school during the fall of 1996?
(a) A carton of milk is thrown.
(b) A Hispanic student steals something from a Black student.
(c) Someone takes a Black student's seat on the bus.
(d) Someone starts name calling.

2. Whose album cover does the class analyze?
(a) Snoop Doggy Dogg.
(b) Kanye West.
(c) 50 Cent.
(d) Eminem.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What novel inspires one of the student's to try to write her own book?

2. Why does Tu donate computers?

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

4. Why does a student say John Tu gives instead of handouts?

5. Besides moving forward, what are the Freedom Writers doing?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does reading "Catcher in the Rye" make a student begin to think about the consequences of suicide?

4. Since Europe is over a year away, what takes precedence in Gruwell's plans after graduation?

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

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

7. What circumstances lead to a student being offered a job from John Tu?

8. What do the Freedom Writers want readers of their book to do?

9. What does Gruwell do after the student's graduate?

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

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