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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. Who does Tash say he will repay?

2. What effect does Tupac's imprisonment have on him?

3. What does Sly convince Tash to do?

4. Why does young Albert have to take off his wire-rimmed glasses?

5. What does the narrator say Tash has not lost?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Tash look like when he comes into the visitation area and how does he act?

2. What does Jayjones explain to the younger children about what blacks need to do to stay out of trouble?

3. What does Tash tell Jayjones about crime?

4. In Chapter 11, what does D ask the narrator and Neeka if they want to do, what is their response?

5. How does Neeka's family enter the prison and how do they feel about the guards?

6. What do Neeka and the narrator do when they come home after being with D in Chapter 11?

7. What does Neeka's family do while visiting with Tash and what does Miss Irene say about his lawyer? What does Tash tell her?

8. What happens in May with the narrator and how does she feel about it?

9. What does the narrator's mother give her for her birthday?

10. Where is D going to live and what do the friends vow?

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

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.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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