Setting-Where is it?
This is when the play takes place.
What is the early 1950s?
This is the medical procedure Ruth considered.
What is an abortion?
"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" (Hansberry 25).
Who is Walter?
Who are Ruth, Walter, Travis, Beneatha, and Mama?
Mama's plant symbolizes her love of gardening.
What is false?
This is the neighborhood where the Younger family lives.
What is Chicago's Southside?
This is why Mama slaps Beneatha.
What is denying the existence of God?
"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..." (Hansberry 42).
Who is Mama?
Beneatha is so upset about what Asagi said about her and assimilation she decides to do what?
What is dress up in Nigeria traditional dress and cut her hair in an afro?
When Mama tells Walter she used some of the money for a house Walter accuses her of butchering his dreams.
What is true?
This is the neighborhood where Mama purchases a house.
What is Clybourne Park?
What does Walter want to do with the insurance check?
What is buying a liquor store?
(1) "Were you born with it like that?" (2) "No...of course not." (1) "How then?" (Hansberry 50).
Who are Beneatha and Asagai?
The Younger family is victim to this systemic racial practice of the 1950s.
What is redlining?
Alaiyo, Asagai's nickname for Beneatha, means "One for whom books are not enough."
What is false?
This is the name of the bar that Walter frequents.
What is the Green Hat?
Why is Mama so against the liquor store? What does she get instead?
What is Mama is very religious and decided to invest in a house instead?
"I guess maybe I better go on and do what I started...I guess I just didn't realize how bad things was with us..." (Hansberry 79).
Who is Ruth?
The title of the play comes from a poem written by this famous poet.
Who is Langston Hughes?
The Youngers decide to stay in Chicago's Southside because it has so many memories for thier family.
What is false?
This is Asagai's home country.
What is Nigeria?
This is how much money Mama gives Walter.
What is $6500?
"And at the moment the overwhelming majority of our people out there feel that people get along better, take more of a common interest in the life of the community, when they share a common background" (Hansberry 103).
Who is Lindner?
This is Asagai's tribal origin.
What is Yoruba?
Beneatha straightening her hair is a form of cultural assimilation.
What is true?