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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mary accuse Precious of doing?
(a) Stealing her welfare
(b) Stealing Carl
(c) Tricking her
(d) Getting pregnant on purpose

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

3. What does Precious' file say is the only thing she is not doing well with in school?
(a) Attendance
(b) Her classmates
(c) Math
(d) Her TABE scores

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

5. Who does Precious write a touching poem about?
(a) Little Mongo
(b) Abdul
(c) Her grandmother
(d) Mrs. Butter

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

7. While at the temporary shelter Mrs. Butter suggested, who tells Precious to put her bag in bed with her?
(a) A girl she knew from her previous school
(b) An old man
(c) The supervisor
(d) A drug addict

8. At the end of Chapter 3, what does Precious do for the first time that she is then ashamed about?
(a) Hits Abdul
(b) Insults one of her classmates
(c) Does not attend class
(d) Screams at Ms. Rain

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

10. What does Precious' grandmother say when she visits Precious at the hospital?
(a) She needs to give up the baby
(b) Only a dog leaves a baby
(c) Not to get pregnant again
(d) Little Mongo misses her

11. When Ms. Rain tells the girls to write fantasies about their lives, what does Precious fantasize about?
(a) Living in Manhattan
(b) Being a virgin
(c) Having a lot of money
(d) Being famous

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

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

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

15. For whom does Rita have an interest in starting a house?
(a) HIV positive women and kids
(b) Orphaned children
(c) Former drug addicts
(d) Incest victims

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Precious tell Jermaine she wants to do after stealing her file from Ms. Weiss?

2. Why does Precious not trust her counselor, Ms. Weiss?

3. What does Precious ask Mary about Carl after Mary attends a counseling session with her?

4. What does Ms. Rain tell Precious, following her startling discovery about herself and Abdul?

5. What does Mary tell Precious she may do if she wants to after they attend a counseling session together?

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