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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 Precious do after Ms. Weiss leaves the office to get her a Coke?
(a) Draws a picture
(b) Runs out of the office
(c) Steals her file
(d) Cries

2. What does Precious talk about in the letter she writes to Ms. Rain at the hospital?
(a) Not knowing what to think about the baby.
(b) Her first child, Little Mongo.
(c) Being raped by Carl.
(d) Her mother's abuse.

3. What does Ms. Rain advise Precious to do about Ms. Weiss and their counseling sessions?
(a) Find someone she does trust
(b) Try to open up to Ms. Weiss
(c) To bring a friend along to a session
(d) To cancel them immediately

4. What does Precious ask Mary about Carl after Mary attends a counseling session with her?
(a) If Mary still loves him
(b) If he is coming back
(c) If he was her real father
(d) If he ever loved her

5. While at the temporary shelter Mrs. Butter suggested, who tells Precious to put her bag in bed with her?
(a) A girl she knew from her previous school
(b) The supervisor
(c) A drug addict
(d) An old man

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Mary tell Precious she may do if she wants to after they attend a counseling session together?

3. What year is it when Chapter 4 opens?

4. What does Precious' file say is the only thing she is not doing well with in school?

5. Who is moved to an institution in Chapter 3 in order to receive adequate care?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who does Precious think about calling while she is at the armory and why?

2. When Mary goes to a counseling session with Precious, what is her version about the abuse that took place?

3. When Ms. Rain asks the girls to write fantasies about their lives, what does Precious imagine her life being like?

4. What is the meaning behind Precious' second child's name, Abdul Jamal Louis Jones?

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

6. When Mary visits Precious at the halfway house, what does she reveal to Precious?

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

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

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

10. What does Ms. Rain suggest to Precious whenPrecious writes to her from the hospital?

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