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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) Little Mongo misses her
(c) Not to get pregnant again
(d) She needs to give up the baby

2. What does Ms. Rain tell Precious, following her startling discovery about herself and Abdul?
(a) Ms. Rain will take care of Abdul
(b) She is proud of her
(c) She can live with Ms. Rain
(d) She is going to be famous

3. What does Precious think about in regards to Carl Kenwood Jones after receiving some startling news?
(a) If he is going to look for Little Mongo and Abdul
(b) If he loves her
(c) When he contracted HIV
(d) When she will see him

4. What did Precious grow up thinking about herself?
(a) She will never learn how to read
(b) She will always be overweight
(c) Her insides and outsides are different
(d) Her family is not hers

5. What does Mary tell Precious she may do if she wants to after they attend a counseling session together?
(a) Get in touch with Carl
(b) Apologize to her for stealing Carl
(c) Come home
(d) Give Abdul to her to take care of

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where is the halfway house that Ms. Rain and the girls find for Precious to live?

3. What book is Precious reading in class?

4. What does Mary attempt to do to Precious when Precious returns from the hospital?

5. What year is it when Chapter 4 opens?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is the meaning behind Precious' second child's name, Abdul Jamal Louis Jones?

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

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

8. What kind of things happen to Precious and Abdul when Mrs. Butter sends them to stay at the armory?

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

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

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