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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 do the narrator and Neeka feel about D?

2. For whom is Neeka's brother Albert named?

3. What are Neeka and the narrator doing?

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

5. Why have several colleges contacted Jayjones?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What do the narrator and Neeka dream about when they listen to Tupac's music and how old are they?

4. How does D describe herself and why do Neeka and the narrator envy her? What does D envy about Neeka?

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

6. Who is Jayjones, why is he known at school and what does he want to do with his life?

7. How long has the narrator known Neeka and how did they meet D?

8. What does D say is the reason she loves Tupac and how do the narrator and Neeka feel about what she says?

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

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

The narrator has a reputation as a brainy nerd and the other kids tease her about her intelligence. The narrator is usually quiet and reserved and always has her nose in a book.

1. Why do you think an intelligent student would be teased by other students? Discuss the reasons in depth using examples from the book and your own life.

2. Do you think intelligent girls are teased more than boys? Why or why not? Use examples from the book and your own life to support your answer.

3. Quiet students who are always reading are more intelligent than than others. Defend or refute this statement in depth. Use examples from the book and your own life to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

Chapter eleven is perhaps the most important chapter in the book. Its central event involves the three girls disobeying their mothers' orders not to leave the block. This act is literally and figuratively evidence of maturation. The maturation culminates in a personal transformation Neeka and the narrator feel when they are on the stage of the amphitheater. They announce "We're here!" as if proclaiming their entrance into adulthood. Examining the symbolism of the setting, the girls have finally gone from mere onlookers in life to the doers, the actors, on stage.

1. Discuss, in depth, the symbolism in the scene from the amphitheater. Use examples from After Tupac and D Foster to illustrate and support your answer.

2. Why do you think the narrator and Neeka disobeying their mothers might be evidence of maturation? Students may consider the act of baby birds flying from the nest. Use examples from After Tupac and D Foster to illustrate and support your answer.

3. Why do you think the narrator said she felt "whole" for the first time when the girls were at the amphitheater? Use examples from After Tupac and D Foster to illustrate and support your answer.

Essay Topic 3

D reveals how she loves Tupac because she feels he knows what extreme hunger is like and what it is to go hungry because you don't have enough money. D's friends are shocked that D had such an impoverished upbringing. Neeka assures D that her mother will always have food for D, and D is grateful.

1. Why do you think in a country as rich as America there are still people who don't have enough to eat? Discuss your opinion in depth using examples from the book and your own life.

2. Given the fact that the narrator's mother works long hours to support them and where they live, why do you think the narrator and Neeka are shocked to find out about D's life? Discuss your opinion in depth using examples from the book and your own life.

3. Discuss in depth the following statement: Every human being has the right to enough food to eat.

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