Setting
Plot
Theme
Character Personalities
Who is Speaking?
100
The U.S. city where A Raisin in the Sun takes place.
What is Chicago?
100
The business Walter Lee Younger dreams of opening.
What is the liquor store?
100
The apartment's state and setting represents this theme.
What is poverty, oppression, struggle, etc.?
100
A character who can be described as resigned to the way things are and frustrated with the unfulfilled and selfish dreams of others.
Who is Ruth Younger?
100
"Man say to his woman: I got me a dream. His woman say: Eat your eggs" (Act I, Scene I)
Who is Walter Lee Younger speaking to Ruth Younger?
200
The room where Travis is forced to sleep.
What is the living room?
200
The procedure Ruth Younger considers having done.
What is an abortion?
200
According to Beneatha, blues music represents this.
What is assimilation?
200
A character who is desperate to move forward in life to fulfill a dream.
Who is Walter Lee Younger?
200
"I am not an assimilationist!" (Act I, Scene II).
Who is Beneatha Younger speaking to Joseph Asagai?
300
The global conflict that is occurring during this play.
What is the Cold War?
300
Mama tells Walter to put money into a savings account for this.
What is to pay for Beneatha's medical school?
300
The theme that Joseph Asagai represents is:
What is assimilation, connecting to Africa, etc.?
300
A character who is proud of her life and family, and who has a lot of faith.
Who is Mama (Lena) Younger?
300
"I am sure you people must be aware of some of the incidents which have happened in various part of the city when colored people have moved into certain areas..." (116).
Who is Mr. Lindner speaking to Walter Lee Younger, Ruth Younger, and Beneatha Younger?
400
The major conflict that is occurring to black people buying homes in Chicago during the 50s and 60s was...
What is fraud, illegal, racist? Black people were being sold homes without a proper mortgage. They were told to sign contracts and didn't actually have proper ownership of their homes.
400
The neighborhood GROUP Mr. Lindner is from.
What is The Clybourne Park Improvement Association?
400
The theme of the Langston Hughes poem and A Raisin in the Sun are the same. This theme is
What is dreams (failed dreams)?
400
A character who could be described as having a manipulative personality.
Who is Mr. Lindner?
400
"Seem like God didn't see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams--but He did give is children to male them dreams seem worthwhile" (Act I, Scene I).
Who is Mama (Lena) Younger speaking to Ruth Younger?
500
The area of Chicago where the Younger's apartment is located.
What is Chicago's Southside?
500
A physical trait of Beneatha's that men were so opinionated about throughout the novel.
What is her hair?
500
Mama's plant represents this theme:
What is hope, growth, etc.?
500
A character described in the play as "a sophisticate" (61).
Who is Joseph Asagai?
500
"So-I would rather be living in Buckingham Palace" (Act I, Scene I).
Who is Ruth Younger speaking to Walter Lee Younger?
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