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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 has Precious not completed that each girl in the class is required to do?
2. What does Ms. Rain tell Precious she can do with her life?
3. Where do Mrs. Butter and the other nurses send Precious after she comes back to the hospital?
4. What is Precious' son's full name?
5. What does Ms. Rain advise Precious to do about Ms. Weiss and their counseling sessions?
Short Essay Questions
1. What happens at the end of Chapter 3 between Ms. Rain and Precious?
2. What existential argument does Precious grapple with at the end of Chapter 4?
3. How does Precious feel about her counselor, Ms. Weiss, and how does their first session go?
4. What are the journal entries about that Precious does not want Ms. Rain to see?
5. What is happening to Precious at the opening of Chapter 4?
6. What happens to Precious when she returns home from the hospital after having Abdul?
7. What does Precious learn about Ms. Rain and how does it help correct a previous misconception she had?
8. What does Precious say is her problem when trying to write her life story for the class?
9. What does Ms. Rain suggest to Precious whenPrecious writes to her from the hospital?
10. How does Precious feel about her second child, Abdul?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Precious has an obsession with ugliness. How does Precious equate ugliness with black people and being black? Where does she see ugliness? How do these views affect her views on white people? Use specific examples from the text to support your answer.
Essay Topic 2
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 3
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.
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