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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. Until the students found the safety of Room 203, what did they see to be a solution to their problems?

2. In the book "Animal Farm", what is a Molly?

3. What does a student's mother do about a teacher who doesn't read black literature?

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

5. Who helps Gruwell get permission to teach the seniors?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why is Gruwell scared sometimes when she drives students home?

4. Why is getting kicked off the basketball team eventually a positive thing for Joan?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

A theme in the book is the parallel between warfare as experienced by Anne Frank and Zlata Filipovic and the violence the students see in their everyday lives. How can the events in Anne's and Zlata's lives be compared to the student's lives? What kind of violence did Frank and Filipovic experience? What type of violence do the students experience? How is the violence that Anne and Zlata experienced similar or dissimilar to what the students face?

Essay Topic 2

Zlata says during her visit that the Bosnian Children become "soldiers" and the soldiers became "children". What does Zlata mean by that statement? What happens to children during a war? How do soldiers behave when trying to achieve their goals? How are the roles reversed?

Essay Topic 3

In Diary 74, a student's mother tells him/her that "One person can make a difference that can change the world." Why does the student find that statement unbelievable? What are some examples of people the student remembers making great changes? Does the student begin to believe that one person can make a difference that changes the world? Does the student believe that s/he can make that kind of difference or that his/her fellow students can make that type of a difference? Why or why not? Provide examples from the book.

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