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Vocabulary
Grab Bag
True or False
100

This character says "eat your eggs, and go to work" to Walter

Who is Ruth

100

"I was lookin' in the mirror and thinking about it...I'm thirty-five years old, I been married eleven years and I got a boy who sleeps in the living room--and all I got to give him is stories about how rich white people live"

Who is Walter

100

This word's synonyms are: determined, locked in, focussed.

What is Intently

100

Name the five major characters of the play

Who are Mama/Lena, Ruth, Walter Lee, Beneatha, and Travis

100

Ruth is pregnant, and is happy about the expectation of a new baby.

What is false, Ruth is worried about bringing a baby into their family who is struggling with money as it is.

200
This character denies the existence of God.
Who is Beneatha
200

Which character said the following quote: "No--there's something come down between me and them that don't let us understand each other and I don't know what it is. One done almost lost his mind thinking 'bout money all the time..."

Who is Mama

200

Vocabulary word that shows lack of interest or concern

What is Indifferent

200

The Younger family lives in what city and where in that City?

What is Chicago and the Southside

200

The Younger's living room furniture is exhausted from having to accommodate too many people for too long.

What is true, this was in the opening stage directions.

300

Beneatha has two love interests, who are they?

Who are George Murchinson and Joseph Asagai

300

Which character said the following: "You... you are a disgrace to your father's memory."

Who is mama (to Walter)

300

Word that means "untidy" or "disarranged"

What is disheveled

300

Walter gives this person $1, when they only asked for .50 cents.

Who is Travis

300
Mama's plant symbolizes her love of gardening.
What is False. Mama's plant symbolizes her dream of owning a house with a garden. Mama's plant also symbolizes her children and how they have grown up despite their poor living conditions.
400

This person is getting a check for $10,000

Who is Mama

400

Which character says: "Man, I got to change my life, I'm choking to death."

Who is Walter

400

Exercise of cruel authority

What is oppression
400
The title of the play comes from a line in a poem written by which famous poet?
Who is Langston Hughes
400
Alaiyo, Asagai's nickname for Beneatha, means "One for whom books are not enough"
What is false. Alaiyo means "One for whom bread is not enough"
500

Who brings Beneatha a traditional Nigerian outfit?

Who is Asagai
500

Which character said: "That's a whole lot different from having it come and being able to hold it with your hands... a piece of paper worth ten thousand dollars."

Who is Ruth

500

What did Beneatha wear while she was cleaning the house?

What are dungarees
500

How long did mama originally think she would live in their current apartment?

What is one year.

500

True or false, Travis shot Beneatha with a slingshot in scene two.

What is True, this was in the stage directions!

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