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

2. What does Precious want to have checked out?
(a) Her eyes
(b) Her cholesterol
(c) Her blood
(d) Her teeth

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

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

5. 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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Precious understand about AIDS?

2. After fighting with her mother, why does Precious take Abdul and go to the Emergency Room?

3. What is one of the things that Precious brings to the class as her personal touch?

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

5. What does Ms. Rain ask Precious about her father?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Precious worried about concerning Abdul's first birthday and school?

2. When Mary comes to visit Precious at the Harlem halfway house, what does Precious understand about her?

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

4. What happens at the end of Chapter 3 between Ms. Rain and Precious?

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

6. What does Ms. Rain suggest to Precious whenPrecious writes to her from the hospital?

7. What happens to Precious when she returns home from the hospital after having Abdul?

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

9. When Ms. Rain asks the girls to write fantasies about their lives, what does Precious imagine her life being like?

10. When Precious attends the incest survivors meeting with Rita, what is she surprised to find out?

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