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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 what does Neeka tease D when D returns in a few days with a jump rope?

2. How many sets of twins does Neeka's family have?

3. Why might the boys like D better than Neeka or the narrator?

4. How does the narrator feel when Jayjones tells her about pretty girls and eating?

5. According to the narrator what kind of clothes does D wear?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is D's foster mother, what is she like, and why does D obey her?

2. For what does the narrator have a reputation?

3. What does Jayjones tell the girls about him and Tupac?

4. Why does Jayjones arrive at the house breathless in Chapter 5?

5. For whom is Albert named and why does the narrator question this choice?

6. What does Neeka say to Jayjones when he tells her what happened to him at the park?

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

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

9. What does D say looking at Tupac does to her?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the following:

1. What do you think are the characteristics of a successful novel?

2. Analyze and discuss After Tupac and D Foster based upon the criteria you decide upon in #1 and judge if After Tupac and D Foster is a successful novel.

3. Do you think the fact that After Tupac and D Foster is a youth book changes the criteria upon which its success should be judged? Explain.

Essay Topic 2

Tupac's mother was in jail when she was pregnant with Tupac, arrested for being a member of the militant group the Black Panthers. The girls all admire the fact that Tupac loves his mother very much, despite some fights they have. D says looking at Tupac is like looking in the mirror, and that when he sings about his mother, it's like he's singing about D's real mother, whom she does not know.

1. What issues do you think are involved with women who are pregnant and in prison? Use examples from the book and your own opinion to support your answer.

2. D says looking at Tupac is like looking in the mirror, and that when he sings about his mother, it's like he's singing about D's real mother, whom she does not know. Discuss in detail what you think this statement means. Use examples from the book and your own opinion to support your answer.

3. The girls all admire the fact that Tupac loves his mother very much, despite some fights they have. Why do you think the girls believe Tupac loves his mother? Discuss the problem of a famous person's public face and his/her private face? Do you think they are different? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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