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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. About how old were the three girl friends when Tupac was shot?

2. Why does D obey her foster mother?

3. What does Tupac's death force the narrator to consider?

4. For what was Tupac known?

5. What does D say is the reason she came to the block where Neeka and the narrator are?

Short Essay Questions

1. For what does the narrator have a reputation?

2. What are the narrator and Neeka trying to teach the younger children and how does that end?

3. What is Neeka's mother like, what is her name and how does she feel about D when she first meets D?

4. What are D, the narrator, and Neeka doing in the opening of Chapter 1 and what is "Brenda's Got a Baby" about?

5. What does the narrator say about Tupac Shakur and getting shot in the prologue?

6. What does the narrator think about Tupac and the song "Brenda's Got a Baby"?

7. What does Jayjones bring home for the girls to eat and what does he say to D about the food?

8. What other children are in Neeka's family and how many of them are there?

9. Who is Neeka's other brother and why do Neeka and the narrator dislike the homophobic rap songs? Where is this brother?

10. What do the narrator and Neeka envy about D and what does Neeka ask D to bring the next time she comes?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

D is a "throwaway child", and the system allows foster parents to take her on (for government payments) and then dispose of her at their will. Furthermore, the reader gets the sense that the court has erred in granting D's real mother custody, considering the mother's history of alcoholism and negligence.

1. What do you think are the major problems with the foster care system in the United States? Use examples from the book and your own life to support your answer.

2. Do you think the courts should have so much power over the lives of children and their parents? Why or why not? Use examples from the book and your own life to support your answer.

3. Discuss the mental and emotional impacts D's life situation might have on her in the long term. Use examples from the book and your own life to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

There are a number of interesting questions raised by this book. Questions that most likely Butler wanted the readers to consider and think through carefully. Discuss the following:

1. Name one idea/concept you think may have been a part of the author's agenda. Analyze that idea throughout the book and discuss Woodson's probable agenda concerning that idea.

2. Do you think writers who have an agenda for writing should point it out in a preface?

3. How often do you think fiction is written with a clear agenda in mind by the author?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the following:

1. What is a plot? What are the most important elements of a plot and their definition? Do all novels have a plot? Why or why not?

2. Write a brief synopsis of the plot of After Tupac and D Foster, identifying where the various elements of the plot occur (Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution or denouement). Do you find it difficult to identify the plot? Why or why not? What about the various elements of the plot?

3. Identify the major sub-plots and their elements (They may not contain every element of a major plot). Do the sub-plots add to the main plot? Why or why not. Are the sub-plots interesting in and of themselves? Why or why not?

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