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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. Rain advise Precious to do about Ms. Weiss and their counseling sessions?
(a) Find someone she does trust
(b) To cancel them immediately
(c) Try to open up to Ms. Weiss
(d) To bring a friend along to a session

2. What does Precious begin thinking about as she gets older?
(a) Boys
(b) College
(c) Moving
(d) Teaching

3. What year is it when Chapter 4 opens?
(a) 1991
(b) 1990
(c) 1989
(d) 1987

4. What does Precious do after Ms. Weiss leaves the office to get her a Coke?
(a) Steals her file
(b) Draws a picture
(c) Cries
(d) Runs out of the office

5. For whom does Rita have an interest in starting a house?
(a) Former drug addicts
(b) Orphaned children
(c) Incest victims
(d) HIV positive women and kids

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mary accuse Precious of doing?

2. What did Precious grow up thinking about herself?

3. What does Ms. Rain tell Precious, following her startling discovery about herself and Abdul?

4. What is Precious worried about happening when Abdul turns one?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Who does Precious think about calling while she is at the armory and why?

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