Themes
Historical Context
Plot
Characters
Miscellaneous
100
What does the whole family have that leads them to move into a different house and out of the old apartment?
They have dreams.
100
Name of the playwright.
Who is Lorraine Hansberry?
100
What is the reason for Walter going crazy when he is talking to George?
He was drunk.
100
Who is Karl Lindner a symbol of?
A common, racist white man?
100
Who has many different hobbies?
Beneatha
200
What does the family lack?
Money
200
What was the social situation in America at the time it was written?
Segregation and racism
200
Why does Lindner come to the apartment?
To give them money in order to get them to not move into their all white neighborhood.
200
Who is Beneatha dating and comes to the house and talks to Walter?
George
200
Who is the character that plays the housewife?
Ruth
300
What is Lindner's goal in trying to keep the family from moving into the all white neighborhood?
To keep the neighborhood all white and segregated.
300
When was this performed?
1959
300
What does the family agree on when Lindner comes to the house?
To not give him money and to move into the house.
300
Who is the head of the house?
Mama
300
What does Mama firmly believe in?
God and heaven
400
Who portrays feminism the most throughout the play?
Beneatha
400
What event that happened in the play also happened in Hansberry's life?
Getting kicked out of their neighborhood that was all white.
400
What does Mama do when Beneatha won't believe in God?
She slaps her and tells her there is a god in her household.
400
What does Beneatha want to be?
A doctor
400
Who is Walter jealous of?
George
500
What is the conflict that Beneatha brings up to Mama?
Their contrasting beliefs in religion
500
The case that dealt with Hansberry's family being kicked out of their neighborhood.
What is Hansberry v. Lee?
500
What does Ruth keep saying about George?
That he is rich
500
What is Ruth and Mama's attitude towards Beneatha's different hobbies?
They didn't understand and didn't like it.
500
Why is the family mad when Lindner comes over to their house?
Because they want to live in their new house without hatred from the white community.
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