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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is moved to an institution in Chapter 3 in order to receive adequate care?
(a) Mary
(b) Precious
(c) Little Mongo
(d) Abdul

3. 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

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

5. What does Precious write about in a poem?
(a) Her children
(b) Sexual abuse
(c) Harlem
(d) School

6. What year is it when Chapter 4 opens?
(a) 1990
(b) 1989
(c) 1991
(d) 1987

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

8. What does Ms. Rain think about Precious that bewilders Precious?
(a) That she is strong minded
(b) That she is innocent
(c) That she is pretty
(d) That she is articulate

9. What support group does Rita want Precious to join?
(a) HIV Help
(b) A Woman's Body
(c) Body Positive
(d) AID for AIDS

10. What does Precious tell Mrs. Butter once she finds her at the hospital?
(a) She wants to live with her grandmother
(b) She wants Mrs. Butter to take Abdul
(c) Her mother is insane
(d) She has been raped

11. After attending the Survivors of Incest Anonymous meeting with Rita, what is Precious surprised to learn?
(a) Incest happens to "pretty white girls" too
(b) Incest is underreported
(c) Lots of people share her thoughts
(d) It is not her fault that she is a victim of incest

12. What does Ms. Rain tell Precious she can do with her life?
(a) Move away to somewhere new
(b) Find nice adoptive parents
(c) Go to college
(d) Charge her parents with sexual abuse

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Precious do after Ms. Weiss leaves the office to get her a Coke?

2. What does Precious want to have checked out?

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

4. What makes Precious feel better while having to deal with HIV?

5. When does Precious have her son?

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