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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 Mary attempt to do to Precious when Precious returns from the hospital?
(a) Rape her
(b) Kill her
(c) Steal Abdul
(d) Keep her from going to school

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

3. What does Precious' file suggest she should look into pursuing?
(a) Being a home attendant
(b) Therapy
(c) Law
(d) Teaching

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

5. What book is Precious reading in class?
(a) Of Mice and Men
(b) The Color Purple
(c) Black Boy
(d) I, Tituba

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Precious write about in a poem?

2. What does Precious say about her assignment that is yet to be completed?

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

4. When does Precious have her son?

5. While at the temporary shelter Mrs. Butter suggested, who tells Precious to put her bag in bed with her?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the journal entries about that Precious does not want Ms. Rain to see?

2. What is the plant that Precious brings into the classroom symbolic of?

3. How does Precious feel about her counselor, Ms. Weiss, and how does their first session go?

4. What is happening to Precious at the opening of Chapter 4?

5. What existential argument does Precious grapple with at the end of Chapter 4?

6. What does Precious come to realize about her classmates and Ms. Rain after she learns she has HIV?

7. What does Precious' file say about Precious and what is she afraid her file could do to her?

8. What does Precious learn about Ms. Rain and how does it help correct a previous misconception she had?

9. What does Precious say is her problem when trying to write her life story for the class?

10. Where does Precious go after she leaves her home with Abdul and who does she look for?

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