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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 Ms. Weiss ask Precious when she returns with the Coke?

2. What does Precious ask Mary about Carl after Mary attends a counseling session with her?

3. What does Precious tell Mrs. Butter once she finds her at the hospital?

4. What does Precious wake up to discover one evening at the temporary shelter?

5. After attending the Survivors of Incest Anonymous meeting with Rita, what is Precious surprised to learn?

Short Essay Questions

1. What existential argument does Precious grapple with at the end of Chapter 4?

2. What does Precious say is her problem when trying to write her life story for the class?

3. Where does Precious go after she leaves her home with Abdul and who does she look for?

4. What kind of things happen to Precious and Abdul when Mrs. Butter sends them to stay at the armory?

5. What does Precious learn about Ms. Rain and how does it help correct a previous misconception she had?

6. When Mary comes to visit Precious at the Harlem halfway house, what does Precious understand about her?

7. What does Precious come to realize about her classmates and Ms. Rain after she learns she has HIV?

8. What is the plant that Precious brings into the classroom symbolic of?

9. What is Precious worried about concerning Abdul's first birthday and school?

10. How does Precious feel about her second child, Abdul?

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

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

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.

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