Characters
This character is the youngest member of the Younger family.
Who is Travis?
A play is split into large parts or sections called ____.
What are acts?
This is where Travis sleeps.
What is the living room couch?
This person is the playwright of A Raisin in the Sun.
Who is Lorraine Hansberry?
The period of time was an intellectual and cultural revival of African American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics and scholarship centered in New York City from 1920-1930.
What is The Harlem Renaissance?
This character is a chauffeur (professional driver).
Who is Walter?
A play is split into smaller sections or parts in each act called _____.
What are scenes?
Beneatha's dream is to be a _______.
What is a doctor?
What is Chicago?
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 allowed more African Americans to vote and it also helped non__________ _____________ Americans vote.
What is non-English-speaking Americans?
This character has a brother named Walter.
Who is Beneatha?
These instructions tell the actors and stage workers (stagehands) how to enter a scene, how to act, and what the scene should look like on stage.
*We do not read them out loud when the play is actually performed.*
What are stage directions?
The insurance check the family is waiting for will give them $_________.
What is $10,000 (ten thousand dollars)?
A Raisin in the Sun was the first play produced on Broadway by a _________ ___________.
What is a Black/African American woman?
This was the phrase used by White leaders to excuse segregation (keeping White people and Black people apart).
"______________ but ___________"
What is "separate but equal"?
This character is the head of the Younger family and has 2 names.
Who is Mama/Lena?
This means discriminating against someone based on their race.
What is racism?
This is what Walter wants to do with the insurance money.
What is open a liquor business?
The playwright's family was attacked by a neighbors when they moved to a ________ neighborhood.
What is a white neighborhood?
This vocabulary word means "a period of time when African Americans moved in large numbers from the rural South to the industrial North.
What is The Great Migration?
This character is married to Walter.
Who is Ruth?
These are the two types of drama.
What is tragedy and comedy?
At the end of Act 1, Ruth ___________ because she is ________________.
What is fainted because she is pregnant?
What is Black and gay?
A Raisin in the Sun was named after a poem by this author.
Who is Langston Hughes?