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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 Jo Ann claim she wants that she mispronounces?
2. What does Ms. Rain tell the girls that they can call her?
3. What does Precious wonder about after her mother takes her back home?
4. When Precious starts thinking about kindergarten and first grade, what does she remember?
5. What does Mrs. Lichenstein talk about with Precious in her office?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is another reason revealed in Chapter 2 for why Precious' education is not up to par with the rest of her classmates?
2. Why are the girls' journals that Ms. Rain has them write in each day so difficult to read?
3. Why is Precious a ninth grader and not the junior in high school that she should be?
4. Although Precious likes her math teacher, Mr. Wicher, why does she yell at him on the first day of school?
5. What does one of Precious' classmates at the Alternative school do for her that makes her want to cry?
6. What does Precious need to do in order to register for the Alternative school?
7. What does Precious say when she speaks for the first time in class at the Alternative school?
8. What upsets Precious when she goes to register for the Higher Education Alternative/Each One Teach One school?
9. What does Ms. Butter question Precious about when she is at the hospital with Precious?
10. What does Precious say about Farrakhan?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Precious describes the halfway house in literal terms: the place where people go when they are halfway between an old and a new life. Explain what Precious means with this statement in terms of her character and life. Use specific examples from the text to support your answer.
Essay Topic 2
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 3
What is the significance of Precious calling herself Precious? Use specific examples from the text to support your answer.
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