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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. When one of the juniors was twelve, how did her grandmother die?
2. How is money raised to get the students to college?
3. Who said, "The best method of overcoming your obstacles is the team method"?
4. Why is one student not excited about making a book of events from their lives?
5. Why does a teacher say they do not read black literature in class?
Short Essay Questions
1. What circumstances lead to a student being offered a job from John Tu?
2. 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"?
3. Why does a student write that she is a loving girl and mention that she cries when she read "The Color Purple"?
4. Why is a student acting as receptionist in the classroom by Chapter VII?
5. What does Gruwell do after the student's graduate?
6. What tragic event makes the Freedom Writers realize how fortunate they are?
7. Why does a student mention that her/his mother said that "Silence gets you nowhere in life"?
8. After the students walk down the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, what does someone suggest?
9. Why does the Guess? Company wish to help the students get to New York City to accept an award?
10. Who is a prisoner who writes the Freedom Writers from West Virginia?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What comparisons can be made between Zlata and the Freedom Writers? How are Zlata and the Freedom Writers subjected to things that can make them victims? Why don't Zlata and the Freedom Writers become victims? How does writing help all of them? Provide examples from the foreword and the book.
Essay Topic 2
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 3
In Diary 107, a student compares the students at an elementary school to lotus flowers. Why does the student compare these children to lotus flowers? In what type of environment do lotus flowers grow? How is the environment of a lotus plant similar to the environment the children from the elementary school live in?
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