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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Precious' mother do to Precious three months after Little Mongo is born?

2. How does Precious know she weighs more than two hundred pounds?

3. What was Rita before she attended the Alternative School?

4. Why does Precious yell at her math teacher, Mr. Wicher?

5. When did Precious' mother notice that Precious was pregnant with her first baby?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Precious a ninth grader and not the junior in high school that she should be?

2. Why does Precious attack Mrs. Lichenstein at school?

3. How did Precious become so overweight at such a young age?

4. Why does Precious not want her mother to know about her second pregnancy?

5. What does Ms. Rain ask the students to do that horrifies Precious?

6. What does Precious need to do in order to register for the Alternative school?

7. What is the irony of Jo Ann wanting to work in the record label industry?

8. What does Precious say about Farrakhan?

9. When Precious returns from her first day of school, what is Mary worrying about happening?

10. Although Precious likes her math teacher, Mr. Wicher, why does she yell at him on the first day of school?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Push ends with the students' book and their life stories. Choose one of the characters from Precious' class and compare her life story to Precious. Are they similar or different? How? Use specific examples from the book to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

At the end of Chapter 2, Precious has put up pictures of Harriet Tubman and Farrakhan on her wall and looks out of her window at the town she lives in. Describe this scene and its significance in explaining Precious' fight throughout the novel. Use specific examples from the text to support your answer.

Essay Topic 3

Is the ending of Push negative or positive? What kind of message is Sapphire trying to send to the reader? Support your answer with specific examples from the text.

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