View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the rose prove wrong by learning to walk without feet in "The Rose That Grew from Concrete"?
(a) The law of nutrition.
(b) The city's gardening ordinance.
(c) Nature's law.
(d) Gravitiy.

2. What "means nothing" in "When Ure Heart Turns Cold"?
(a) "A baby's cry."
(b) "The life of another."
(c) "A mother's love."
(d) "A father's pride."

3. To whom is the poem "In the Depths of Solitude" dedicated?
(a) "2 U."
(b) "2 Me."
(c) "4 U."
(d) "4 Me."

4. Shakur writes that there was no what "for this thriving star" in "The Shining Star Within"?
(a) Compassion.
(b) Credit.
(c) Love.
(d) Remembrance.

5. In what film was Tupac's first starring role?
(a) Boyz N the Hood.
(b) Juice.
(c) Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood.
(d) Jungle Fever.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the final lines of "The Fear in the Heart of a Man," the poet writes, "I may receive great joy or u may return it" how?

2. In "Sometimes I Cry," Shakur writes "The world moves fast and it would rather pass us by / Than 2 stop and C" what?

3. Who was Tupac's first professional manager with whom he left the poems of "The Rose That Grew from Concrete"?

4. Of what does the poet write "nah I leave the cutting up 2 Dize" in "Only 4 The Righteous"?

5. What is the name of Tupac Shakur's father?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 251 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample