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

2. What does Neeka think Jayjones should do?

3. What is the narrator's mother like?

4. What is D's biggest dream?

5. What did Tupac do while he was in jail?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the narrator's mother question her about concerning D, what is the narrator's response and then her mother's response to the narrator's answer?

3. What does Tupac's death make the narrator think about and what is the rest of the book about?

4. What does the narrator and her mother discuss from the newspaper in Chapter 6 and what do they decide?

5. What do the narrator and Neeka hear on the news about Tupac in Chapter 7 and how do the girls react? What does the narrator's mother say about it?

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

7. What does Neeka interrogate D about when they meet and why did D come to their street?

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

9. When does D come back and what happens when the girls begin to jump rope?

10. For what does the narrator have a reputation?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Titles often play a vital role in making a person decide to read a particular book. Discuss the following:

1. Fully explain why you think After Tupac and D Foster is titled as such. Do you think it is the best title for the book? Why or why not? Can you think of a better title? Why would you choose it?

2. How important is a title in influencing you to consider reading a book? Explain your answer.

3. Do you think a title needs to have direct relevance to a book's content? Explain your answer.

4. Have you ever read a book that when you finished, you do not understand the relevance of the title? Does it discourage you from "trusting" that particular author again?

Essay Topic 2

Oftentimes, a book has more of a character-driven plot rather than action driven, and oftentimes the other way. Some books seem to balance the two. Discuss the following:

1. What do you think it means to say that a plot is character driven? Action driven?

2. How do you think a plot differs if it is character driven versus action driven?

3. Which type of plot do you find more interesting? Why?

4. Do you think it is possible to have a plot where action and character development share equal time? Why or why not.

5. What type of plot do you think After Tupac and D Foster is? Explain your response.

Essay Topic 3

Tupac's shooting forced some to dismiss Tupac as a mere "gangster" who was a bad influence on black youth. The narrator saw him as a survivor and a hero. Even when Tupac was jailed and released an album from jail, the narrator admired him for his irrepressible spirit.

1. Why do you think the three girls see Tupac as a hero? Use examples from the book and your own opinion to support your answer.

2. Do you think the lyrics to music can be a bad influence on young people? Why or why not? Use examples from the book and your own opinion to support your answer.

3. Discuss, in your opinion, how the bill or rights which guarantees free speech applies to songs. Use examples from the book and your own opinion to support your answer.

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