|
| Name: _________________________ | Period: ___________________ |
This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What book does Ms. Rain help Precious read through?
(a) Goodnight, Moon
(b) A Day at the Beach
(c) Cat in the Hat
(d) Madeline
2. What does Precious do when she orders chicken and the girl goes to the back for the fries?
(a) Asks people for change
(b) Runs out
(c) Eats all of the chicken
(d) Counts how much money she has
3. What does Precious tell the class she is good at?
(a) Smiling
(b) Knitting
(c) Running
(d) Cooking
4. What is the welfare office doing that Mary is upset about?
(a) Removing Precious from the check
(b) Telling her to get a job
(c) Revoking Mary's welfare
(d) Alerting the IRS about Mary
5. What does Precious wonder about after her mother takes her back home?
(a) If she acted irrationally toward Mrs. Lichenstein
(b) If her mother will make her get rid of the baby
(c) What she will name her baby
(d) When she had her first baby
6. Who claims to be in the wrong class and not illiterate?
(a) Rhonda
(b) Precious
(c) Jo Ann
(d) Montenegro
7. When did Precious' mother notice that Precious was pregnant with her first baby?
(a) When Precious began getting morning sickness
(b) When Precious finally told her
(c) When Precious had her baby
(d) When Precious was nine months pregnant
8. What does Precious shove into tinfoil before leaving her house?
(a) Cheese
(b) Bread
(c) Ham
(d) Dry cereal
9. When did Precious' father begin raping her?
(a) When she was in third grade
(b) When she was in second grade
(c) When she was in fifth grade
(d) When she was in fourth grade
10. When was Precious born?
(a) November 11, 1972
(b) November 5, 1973
(c) November 10, 1971
(d) November 4, 1970
11. What does Precious' mother do to Precious three months after Little Mongo is born?
(a) Forces her out of the house
(b) Abandons her
(c) Makes her get a job
(d) Molests her
12. Who does Precious believe to be a real man?
(a) Her father
(b) The Spanish man
(c) Farrakhan
(d) Langston Hughes
13. Why does Precious claim the students listen to her?
(a) They like her
(b) They respect her
(c) They do not like Mr. Wicher
(d) They are scared of her
14. Who does Precious' first baby, Little Mongo, live with?
(a) A foster family
(b) Precious' grandmother
(c) Little Mongo was adopted
(d) Precious
15. What was Rita before she attended the Alternative School?
(a) An honor student
(b) Affluent
(c) A crack addict
(d) An orphan
Short Answer Questions
1. Who does Mrs. Lichenstein want Precious to visit at the Higher Education Alternative/Each One Teach One?
2. How many years has it been since Mary last left the house?
3. How old is Precious when she leaves school to have her daughter?
4. What is Precious nervous about when she enters the classroom on her first day at the Alternative School?
5. Why is Precious almost late for her first day of school at the Alternative School?
|
This section contains 503 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) |
|



