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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. Who is considered the class clown in Ms. Rain's class?

2. What is Precious' mother worried about when she hears Mrs. Lichenstein at the door?

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

4. How does Precious think Farrakhan would explain why her father raped her?

5. What begins to happen to Precious in second grade?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why did Precious stop talking in kindergarten?

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

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

8. What does Precious say about Farrakhan?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Precious eventually scores higher on her TABE scores that she had previously been failing. How and what does this improvement foreshadow the future? Use specific examples from the text to support your answer.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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