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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jo Ann claim she wants that she mispronounces?
(a) Enough money to get out of the garage
(b) Her own TV pile
(c) Her own record layer.
(d) To be a heinous actress

2. What is Precious' mother worried about when she hears Mrs. Lichenstein at the door?
(a) That it is a sales person
(b) That it is her neighbor
(c) That someone is there to take away her welfare
(d) That it is the police

3. What is Precious doing when she returns back to present time from the memory of Little Mongo in Chapter 1?
(a) Knitting a surprise for Little Mongo
(b) Learning how to read
(c) Sneaking out to the Alternative School
(d) Hiding from her mother

4. What is the only thing Precious likes about being pregnant?
(a) She does not have to go to school
(b) Men do not make lewd comments to her
(c) Her mother is nicer to her
(d) Her mother and father leave her alone

5. How does Precious know she weighs more than two hundred pounds?
(a) Her home scale only goes to two hundred
(b) She has been eating a lot due to the pregnancy
(c) The doctor told her earlier
(d) Her mother always comments on her weight

Short Answer Questions

1. Who loans Precious money for lunch, causing her to cry?

2. What does Precious nickname the black nurse at the hospital?

3. What is Precious nervous about when she enters the classroom on her first day at the Alternative School?

4. What does the principal tell Precious' teacher in second grade who tries to help her?

5. What grade is Precious in at the beginning of the story?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Precious say when she speaks for the first time in class at the Alternative school?

2. Although Precious likes her math teacher, Mr. Wicher, why does she yell at him on the first day of school?

3. What does Ms. Rain ask the students to do that horrifies Precious?

4. When Precious returns from her first day of school, what is Mary worrying about happening?

5. What is another reason revealed in Chapter 2 for why Precious' education is not up to par with the rest of her classmates?

6. What prevents Precious from being able to care about and succeed in her education?

7. Why is Precious a ninth grader and not the junior in high school that she should be?

8. How do the time shifts occur with Precious in Chapter 1?

9. Why did Precious stop talking in kindergarten?

10. What does one of Precious' classmates at the Alternative school do for her that makes her want to cry?

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