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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. When time jumps back to when Precious is sixteen in Chapter 1, what is she doing?

2. What does Ms. Rain want the girls to do every day?

3. Who does Precious believe to be a real man?

4. What does Precious wonder about after her mother takes her back home?

5. What results from the encounters that begin happening to Precious in second grade?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ms. Butter question Precious about when she is at the hospital with Precious?

2. What upsets Precious when she goes to register for the Higher Education Alternative/Each One Teach One school?

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

4. What is another reason revealed in Chapter 2 for why Precious' education is not up to par with the rest of her classmates?

5. How does Precious surprise herself on her first day of class at the Alternative School?

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

7. What does Precious say about Farrakhan?

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

9. Why is Precious so excited that she has read the book "A Day at the Beach"?

10. Why does Precious have a hard time understanding that she had a baby?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Precious going to the incest survivors support group help her? In what ways does it alter her views and add to the changes taking place in her life? Support your thesis with specific examples from the text.

Essay Topic 2

In Chapter 1, Precious shifts back and forth between the past and present. How does this and the way in which these time shifts are written reflect on Precious' character? What do these time shifts signify about Precious and the life she leads? Cite specific examples from the text to support your answer.

Essay Topic 3

Before attending the Alternative School, Precious has a lot of bias toward white people and homosexual people. Using examples from the book, explain how the Alternative School helped Precious overcome these prejudices.

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