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

2. What happens when a student gives her/himself an F?
(a) The student is expelled.
(b) Gruwell gets angry and says that if you fail, I fail.
(c) The student is dropped from Gruwell's class.
(d) The student is sent to the principal's office.

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

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

5. Why do the students and Gruwell have to climb out the window of the school one night?
(a) Because they are not supposed to be in the building after hours.
(b) So the alarms don't go off.
(c) That is how they get into the school.
(d) Because there is a gang fight outside the front door.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a student referring to when she says she is a loving girl, but there is pain in her heart?

2. Who challenges the Freedom Writers to not just talk, but "to walk the walk"?

3. What article by Peter Maass does a student read his/her sophomore year?

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

5. Who publishes the Freedom Writer's diaries?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why are little kids bad in the projects?

2. Who is Peter Maass?

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

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

5. What does the prom queen write about her life?

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

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

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

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

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

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