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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 Ms. Weiss ask Precious when she returns with the Coke?
(a) What she wants to do with her life
(b) Where she feels safest
(c) How she feels about Carl
(d) To share her first memory

2. When does Precious have her son?
(a) January 20, 1987
(b) January 30, 1989
(c) January 15, 1988
(d) January 5, 1990

3. In Chapter 4, what does Precious wonder about Carl when she thinks about her first baby?
(a) Why no one put him in jail
(b) If he loved the baby
(c) If he knew about the pregnancy
(d) What he told people when they saw Precious was pregnant

4. How does Precious tell Ms. Rain that she needs an HIV test?
(a) In private
(b) She sends her a letter
(c) With her journal
(d) She shows her a magazine article about AIDS

5. What has Precious not completed that each girl in the class is required to do?
(a) Complete all homework assignments
(b) Write her life story
(c) Get an A on a test
(d) Pass the G.E.D. test

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What happens when Precious tells the social worker that Little Mongo does not live with her?

3. What is the plant that Precious brings into the classroom supposed to be representative of?

4. What does Mary accuse Precious of doing?

5. What is Precious unsure about in terms of her future relationships?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. When Mary visits Precious at the halfway house, what does she reveal to Precious?

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

10. When Precious begins writing poetry, what is her poetry about?

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