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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What novel inspires one of the student's to try to write her own book?
2. Why does a student say John Tu gives instead of handouts?
3. During the diversity seminar, what does a student remember about how his/her brother died during his/her sophomore year?
4. Why does Tu donate computers?
5. Who publishes the Freedom Writer's diaries?
Short Essay Questions
1. What tragic event makes the Freedom Writers realize how fortunate they are?
2. Who is Peter Maass?
3. Why does reading "Catcher in the Rye" make a student begin to think about the consequences of suicide?
4. 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"?
5. In Diary 103, how many girls does the student know that go to college?
6. Why does a student have to clean his/her mother's blood off the wall?
7. What does Gruwell do after the student's graduate?
8. Why is Gruwell scared sometimes when she drives students home?
9. What does the prom queen write about her life?
10. After the students walk down the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, what does someone suggest?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
During the spring semester of 1996, Gruwell asks, "If you could live an eternity and not change a thing or exist for the blink of an eye and alter everything, what do you choose?" How does Gruwell relate this statement to the students' lives? What does she tell the students they can do? How are the students to seize the moment? Which is better, to live forever and leave the world the same or live for a moment and change everything?
Essay Topic 2
When Zlata comes to visit and people ask her her nationality, she tells them "I'm a human being." Why is it strange that adults ask this question? What happens if instead of labeling people, people are treated as individuals? What does the writer of Diary 47 say about this incident? How is the world a better place if we are all treated just as human beings? What happens if there are no labels?
Essay Topic 3
Things change for the Freedom Writers from the time they begin classes with Gruwell their freshman year beyond when they graduate from high school. What are some changes students make? What books, people, or events help students to change? List examples from the book of how specific students change and what specific things help the students to change.
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