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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ms. Weiss ask Precious when she returns with the Coke?
(a) What she wants to do with her life
(b) To share her first memory
(c) Where she feels safest
(d) How she feels about Carl

2. What is Precious nervous about when she enters the classroom on her first day at the Alternative School?
(a) If the kids will taunt her
(b) If the teacher will berate her for being late
(c) If she will pee her pants
(d) If the other kids are smarter than her

3. Who is considered the class clown in Ms. Rain's class?
(a) Precious
(b) Jermaine
(c) Rhonda
(d) Jo Ann

4. In Chapter 4, what does Precious wonder about Carl when she thinks about her first baby?
(a) If he knew about the pregnancy
(b) If he loved the baby
(c) Why no one put him in jail
(d) What he told people when they saw Precious was pregnant

5. What does Precious refuse to do at the hospital after Mrs. Butter questions her?
(a) Tell the police what happened
(b) Go back to school
(c) Give up her baby
(d) Return home

Short Answer Questions

1. For whom does Rita have an interest in starting a house?

2. After fighting with her mother, why does Precious take Abdul and go to the Emergency Room?

3. What does Ms. Rain call the depression Precious is experiencing?

4. Who does Precious' first baby, Little Mongo, live with?

5. When Ms. Rain tells the girls to write fantasies about their lives, what does Precious fantasize about?

(see the answer key)

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