Vocabulary
If someone is exasperated, how do they feel?
What is frustrated, annoyed, out of patience?
What is the setting (place and time0 of "A Raisin in the Sun"?
What is the Southside of Chicago in the 1950s?
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
What was a time when many African American artists, poets, and musicians came to Harlem, NYC and created lots of work that brought life to the place and across the country?
What is Mama's first name?
Who is Lena?
Who did Mama say that she bought the house for?
Who is Travis?
If someone has a sober tone, what kind of tone do they have?
What is a serious tone?
What dream does Walter criticize Beneatha for in the early parts of the play?
What is her dream to be a doctor?
What is her dream to be her own person despite what society expects?
What was the Great Migration?
Who left the insurance money to Mama?
Who is Big Walter?
What gift did Asagai bring to Beneatha?
What are Nigerian robes?
What are beautiful robes?
What is a person's legacy?
What is the memory or the knowledge that they leave behind?
What event causes Ruth to consider going through with her pregnancy and having her baby?
What is Mama buying the house for the family?
How did redlining affect African Americans?
What is it made it impossible/illegal for African Americans to buy houses in certain areas?
Who are the 2 men that Beneatha is "seeing" in the play?
Who are George and Asagai?
What movie is being referenced when Beneatha and Walter were dancing around the apartment shouting, "OWIMOWEH"?
What is "The Lion King"?
What does it mean to rebuff someone's attention or flirting?
What is to brush them off or try to get them to leave you alone?
What was chasing rats in the alley behind their apartment?
What effect did the Jim Crow laws have on African Americans?
What is to make life intensely difficult and dangerous for African Americans through discrimination and violence?
What caused Walter to be extremely upset with Mama?
What is Mama buying the house with the insurance money?
What did Asagai mean when he called Beneatha an "assimilationist"?
What is that she was abandoning her culture to try to fit in, or assimilate, with White culture?
What is making a suggestion or communicating an idea?
After Ruth refused to give Travis fifty cents to take to school, what did Walter do?
What is Walter gave him the fifty cents?
What was the motivation for the Great Migration?
What was the opportunity for better lives in the Northern states?
What were better job opportunities, ability to buy homes, and less racist violence?
Were Mrs. Johnson's views of Black liberation more similar to those of W.E.B. DuBois or Booker T. Washington?
What were the views of Booker T. Washington?
What was the central difference between the views of W.E.B. DuBois and Booker T. Washington?
What is Booker T. Washington wanted African Americans to build better lives by doing what they could that White folks would allow, and W.E.B. DuBois wanted immediate and full civil rights for African Americans through education and power in government?