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

2. What does Precious tell Jermaine she wants to do after stealing her file from Ms. Weiss?
(a) Become a special education teacher
(b) Send Abdul to a good school
(c) Get off aid and go to college
(d) Turn her parents in for the abuse

3. What does Ms. Rain ask Precious about her father?
(a) How long he has abused her
(b) If he tries to contact her
(c) If he has been to prison before
(d) Where he is at the moment

4. What does Ms. Rain think about Precious that bewilders Precious?
(a) That she is pretty
(b) That she is articulate
(c) That she is strong minded
(d) That she is innocent

5. What is Precious unsure about in terms of her future relationships?
(a) If a boy will ever love her
(b) If she can ever trust a man
(c) If she can trust her new friends
(d) If she will ever be taken seriously

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ms. Rain suggest that Precious do after she has given birth to Abdul?

2. What does Precious' grandmother say when she visits Precious at the hospital?

3. What does Ms. Rain notice happening when Precious is mad?

4. What does Ms. Rain tell Precious in response to Precious saying Abdul is everything?

5. For whom does Rita have an interest in starting a house?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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