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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Carl, Precious' father, do after learning of Little Mongo?
(a) Leaves for many years
(b) Blames Precious' mother
(c) Beats Precious
(d) Takes full custody of the baby

2. What does Precious' mother do when she finds out about Precious' first pregnancy?
(a) Makes her leave
(b) Beats her
(c) Takes her to church
(d) Takes her to the doctor

3. What city did Jermaine leave to get out of trouble?
(a) Bronx
(b) Harlem
(c) North Philaldelphia
(d) Camden

4. Who does Precious claim she feels like?
(a) Her father
(b) Her mother
(c) Her grandmother
(d) Little Mongo

5. When did Precious' father begin raping her?
(a) When she was in second grade
(b) When she was in fourth grade
(c) When she was in fifth grade
(d) When she was in third grade

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Mrs. Lichenstein want Precious to visit at the Higher Education Alternative/Each One Teach One?

2. What does Mrs. Lichenstein suggest she and Precious do?

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

4. What does Precious tell the class she is good at?

5. What is the welfare office doing that Mary is upset about?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why does Precious have a hard time understanding that she had a baby?

5. What does Ms. Rain ask the students to do that horrifies Precious?

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

7. What does Precious say when she speaks for the first time in class at the Alternative school?

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

9. Why is Precious a ninth grader and not the junior in high school that she should be?

10. When Precious returns from her first day of school, what is Mary worrying about happening?

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