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

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

3. To whom does the class give a copy of their diaries when in Washington, D.C.?
(a) Their congressman.
(b) President of the United States.
(c) U. S. Secretary of Education.
(d) Their senator.

4. Why does a student call her mother's boyfriend a tornado?
(a) Because he is a slob.
(b) Because he moves so quickly.
(c) Because he is a runner and runs quickly.
(d) Because after he hits, their apartment and the student's mother look like they've been in a tornado.

5. What is different about rooming arrangements when the Freedom Writers go to New York?
(a) The students stay with holocaust survivors.
(b) Gruwell chooses who rooms with who.
(c) The students choose their roommates.
(d) The students stay with private individuals.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How do the Freedom Writers hone their writing craft?

3. What happens to the computers after the students graduate?

4. Whose album cover does the class analyze?

5. What does a student talk about at the diversity seminar?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does a student write that she is a loving girl and mention that she cries when she read "The Color Purple"?

2. Who is a prisoner who writes the Freedom Writers from West Virginia?

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

4. Why did a student charge a Coke machine when s/he was young?

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

6. Why it Christmas Eve so difficult for the student who writes Diary 113?

7. Why does a student have trouble editing a story about an abortion?

8. What magical event occurs at the Lincoln Memorial?

9. Who is Peter Maass?

10. How does Gruwell spend the summer of 1996?

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