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

2. What does Gruwell do the summer of 1996?
(a) Teach at Cal State.
(b) Work at Nordstrom's and the Marriott.
(c) Look for a new job.
(d) Teach at National University and go to Europe.

3. What do the students do when they walk down the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in the spring of 1997?
(a) Begin singing a freedom song.
(b) They join hands and retrace the steps Martin Luther King Jr. walked.
(c) Meet with their local senators.
(d) Light candles and make speeches about freedom and tolerance.

4. Why do the students need a receptionist every class period?
(a) They have so many visitors.
(b) To help write letters.
(c) They are receiving so much mail.
(d) To teach them how to behave in certain social situations.

5. What article by Peter Maass does a student read his/her sophomore year?
(a) Bosnia, a First-Hand Persepective.
(b) Ground Zero.
(c) The Bosnia War.
(d) Bosnia: War or Religious Cleansing?

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the students and Gruwell have to climb out the window of the school one night?

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

3. What starts a series of fights between Hispanics and Blacks at school during the fall of 1996?

4. Why is it difficult for some students to take the SATs?

5. What Christmas song is twisted during a sorority hazing?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why are little kids bad in the projects?

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

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

5. After the students walk down the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, what does someone suggest?

6. Why does the Guess? Company wish to help the students get to New York City to accept an award?

7. What tragic event makes the Freedom Writers realize how fortunate they are?

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

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

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

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