Q 01/05

Which two-time Oscar winner, the star of Million Dollar Baby, plays Erin Gruwell in Freedom Writers?

A) Reese Witherspoon

B) Hilary Swank

C) Charlize Theron

D) Renée Zellweger

Answer · why

B) Hilary Swank

Hilary Swank won her Best Actress Oscars for Boys Don't Cry and Million Dollar Baby before taking the role of the real-life teacher. Two years later s...

Q 02/05

The Freedom Writers' name honors the Freedom Riders, who challenged segregation in 1961 on what?

A) Interstate buses

B) Railroad sleeping cars

C) City streetcars

D) Mississippi riverboats

Answer · why

A) Interstate buses

Interstate buses carried the mixed-race Freedom Riders into the South to test court rulings against segregated travel. Gruwell's students swapped one ...

Q 03/05

In Freedom Writers, department head Margaret Campbell warns Erin Gruwell against wearing what to class?

A) Her wedding ring

B) Diamond earrings

C) A pearl necklace

D) A gold watch

Answer · why

C) A pearl necklace

A pearl necklace draws a compliment from Margaret Campbell, then a warning. The exchange shows early on how little the school expects of the students ...

Q 04/05

Pat Carroll, who plays a real wartime rescuer in Freedom Writers, was the voice of which Disney villain?

A) Maleficent

B) Cruella

C) Medusa

D) Ursula

Answer · why

D) Ursula

Ursula, the sea witch of The Little Mermaid, got her voice from Pat Carroll in 1989. In Freedom Writers she plays the elderly guest of honor who tells...

Q 05/05

Which Shakespeare play did Erin Gruwell teach her Freedom Writers by comparing its conflict to a gang war?

A) The Taming of the Shrew

B) Romeo and Juliet

C) Julius Caesar

D) Twelfth Night

Answer · why

B) Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet became a story about rival gangs in Gruwell's hands. She also asked her students to keep journals and to make movies about their own ...