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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 Mary accuse Precious of doing?
(a) Getting pregnant on purpose
(b) Stealing Carl
(c) Tricking her
(d) Stealing her welfare

2. When Ms. Rain tells the girls to write fantasies about their lives, what does Precious fantasize about?
(a) Having a lot of money
(b) Being a virgin
(c) Living in Manhattan
(d) Being famous

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Mary tell Precious has died of AIDS?

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

3. What does Ms. Weiss ask Precious when she returns with the Coke?

4. What does Precious want to have checked out?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. When Mary goes to a counseling session with Precious, what is her version about the abuse that took place?

3. How does Precious feel about her counselor, Ms. Weiss, and how does their first session go?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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