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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ms. Rain advise Precious to do about Ms. Weiss and their counseling sessions?
(a) To bring a friend along to a session
(b) To cancel them immediately
(c) Try to open up to Ms. Weiss
(d) Find someone she does trust

2. Why does Precious not want to go to counseling?
(a) She does not have the money for counseling
(b) She does not trust strangers
(c) She does not see a point in bringing up the past
(d) She is afraid of getting in trouble

3. What score does Precious get on the TABE test the second time she takes it?
(a) 7.8
(b) 7.7
(c) 8.0
(d) 7.5

4. Who does the reader discover does not have HIV?
(a) Little Mongo
(b) Precious
(c) Abdul
(d) Mary

5. After fighting with her mother, why does Precious take Abdul and go to the Emergency Room?
(a) She wants to hide Abdul
(b) It is the only place Precious feels safe
(c) Mary injured her with a knife
(d) She does not feel well

6. In Chapter 4, what support group does Rita want Precious to attend?
(a) Young mothers group
(b) Domestic abuse victim group
(c) Incest survivor group
(d) Anger management

7. What does Ms. Rain suggest that Precious do after she has given birth to Abdul?
(a) Give up Abdul
(b) Go to the police
(c) Tell child services
(d) Live with her grandmother

8. What is the only thing Precious can think about while in the hospital in Chapter 3?
(a) School
(b) Little Mongo
(c) Her grandmother
(d) Abdul

9. What is Precious' son's full name?
(a) Jamal Abdul Jones Louis
(b) Louis Jamal Abdul Jones
(c) Abdul Jamal Louis Jones
(d) Jamal Louis Abdul Jones

10. What does Precious believe becoming a home attendant will prevent her from doing?
(a) Getting over her abuse
(b) Caring for Abdul and Little Mongo
(c) Finishing school
(d) Making friends

11. What does Ms. Rain ask Precious when Precious refers to her incest class as "insect"?
(a) If she knows the meaning of incest
(b) If she knows how to spell incest
(c) If she is dyslexic
(d) If she has had her hearing checked

12. What does Ms. Rain tell Precious, following her startling discovery about herself and Abdul?
(a) Ms. Rain will take care of Abdul
(b) She can live with Ms. Rain
(c) She is going to be famous
(d) She is proud of her

13. Where do Mrs. Butter and the other nurses send Precious after she comes back to the hospital?
(a) The armory
(b) An orphanage
(c) The trauma room
(d) The police

14. What does Precious not want Ms. Rain to see?
(a) Old school records
(b) Her children
(c) Her journal entries about sex
(d) Scars from her mother's beatings

15. Who does Mary tell Precious has died of AIDS?
(a) Carl
(b) Ms. Rain
(c) Mrs. Butter
(d) Her grandmother

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ms. Rain ask Precious about her father?

2. What does Precious' file say is the only thing she is not doing well with in school?

3. At the end of Chapter 3, what does Precious do for the first time that she is then ashamed about?

4. What does Ms. Rain tell Precious she can do with her life?

5. How does Precious tell Ms. Rain that she needs an HIV test?

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