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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 shove into tinfoil before leaving her house?

2. What does Precious promise her unborn baby as she speaks to it?

3. How many years has it been since Mary last left the house?

4. What does Precious' mother do when she finds out about Precious' first pregnancy?

5. What does Precious promise her mother she will do about the welfare?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who does Precious try to find after she has her first baby?

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

5. Why are the girls' journals that Ms. Rain has them write in each day so difficult to read?

6. What does one of Precious' classmates at the Alternative school do for her that makes her want to cry?

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

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

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

10. What does Precious say about Farrakhan?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the significance of Precious calling herself Precious? Use specific examples from the text to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

Precious has had two babies by the time she is sixteen years old. What is the difference between the two experiences? How does she treats them or thinks about them? Are there any differences? Use specific examples from the text to support your answer.

Essay Topic 3

Education is the solution to all of Precious' problems. Validate or invalidate this statement in your thesis. Use specific examples from the text to support your answer.

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