Historical Context
What part of TEWWG is inspired by Hurston’s own life?
What is Janie's string of failed relationships?
Who was the flashback from a day in October 1917 told by?
Who is Jordan Baker?
Who said it?
“They’re such beautiful shirts. It makes me sad because I’ve never seen such—such beautiful shirts before.”
Who is Daisy?
Where was Claude McKay born?
Where is Jamaica?
Who wrote it?
“I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes,
But I laugh,
And eat well,
And grow strong.”
Who is Langston Hughes?
Witnesses Janie’s care for Tea Cake before he dies; testifies in the trial
Who is Dr. Simmons?
Who said it?
“You ain’t tried tuh pacify nobody but yo’self. Too busy listenin tuh yo’ own big voice."
Who is Janie?
How does Mama react to the arrival of the insurance check? Explain why.
What is sad? Explanations will vary.
Who said it?
“(Straightening up from her and looking off) That’s it. There you are. Man say to his woman: I got me a dream. His woman say: Eat your eggs. (Sadly, but gaining in power) Man say: I got to take hold of this here world, baby! And a woman will say: Eat your eggs and go to work. (Passionately now) Man say: I got to change my life, I’m choking to death, baby! And his woman say—(In utter anguish as he brings his fists down on his thighs)—Your eggs is getting cold!”
Who is Walter Younger?
Where was F. Scott Fitzgerald born?
Where is St. Paul, Minnesota?
What item does Gatsby show Nick in the car to prove he went to Oxford?
What is a photograph?
Who said it?
“Civilization’s going to pieces. I’ve gotten to be a terrible pessimist about things…The idea is if we don’t look out the white race will be—will be utterly submerged. It’s all scientific stuff; it’s been proved… It’s up to us, who are the dominant race, to watch out or these other races will have control of things.”
Who is Tom Buchanan?
What organization did McKay cofound?
What is the African Blood Brotherhood?
What type of poem is “America” by Claude McKay?
*hint: the form
What is a sonnet?
What structure is TEWWG written in? Explain.
What is frame/framed narrative?
Who said it?
"Things lak dat [age] got uh whole lot tuh do wid convenience, but it ain’t got nothin’ tuh do wid love."
Who is Tea Cake?
Which poem is the epigraph and inspiration for A Raisin in the Sun?
What is "Harlem" by Langston Hughes?
Who said it?
“(Almost sadly regarding WALTER) YOU just can’t force people to change their hearts, son.”
Who is Karl Lindner?
What kind of movement is the Harlem Renaissance?
What is cultural?
Before Daisy had her daughter, who was Tom cheating with?
What is a chambermaid?
Who said it?
“All I kept thinking about, over and over, was ‘You can’t live forever; you can’t live forever.’”
Who is Myrtle Wilson?
What are two influences of Langston Hughes' poetry?
What are blues, jazz, and the dialect of Harlem?
Who wrote it?
“The carpenter singing his as he measures his plank or beam,
The mason singing his as he makes ready for work, or leaves off work,
The boatman singing what belongs to him in his boat, the deckhand singing on the steamboat deck,
The shoemaker singing as he sits on his bench, the hatter singing as he stands”
What does Hurston say that Janie’s grandmother pinched around Janie’s neck “tight enough to choke her”?
What is the horizon?
Who said it?
"T'ain't no use in getting all mad,Janie, 'cause ah mention you ain't no young gal no mo'. Nobody in heah ain't lookin' for no wife outa yuh. old as you is."
Who is Jody Starks?
As implied in the stage directions, which family member is immediately suspicious of Karl Lindner, which indirectly characterizes how intelligent s/he is?
Who is Beneatha Younger?
Who said it?
“You’re a nice-looking girl … all over. That’s all you need, honey, forget the atmosphere.”
Who is George Murchison?
Where was the Greenwood neighborhood that was destroyed by a white mob on May 31st-June 1st of 1921?
Where is Tulsa, OK?
What does Gatsby desperately need Daisy to say at the hotel?
What is that she never loved Tom?
Who said it?
“I spoke to her. I told her she might fool me but she couldn’t fool God. I took her to the window and I said ‘God knows what you’ve been doing, everything you’ve been doing. You may fool me, but you can’t fool God.’”
Who is George Wilson?
What was the profession of McKay’s parents?
What is farmers?
Who wrote it?
“Be what you can be
Learn what you must learn
Do what you can do
And tomorrow your nation
Will be what you want it to be.”
Who is Countee Cullen?
What does Janie wear to Tea Cake’s funeral?
What are overalls?
Who said it?
“Look at me! Ah ain’t got no flat nose and liver lips. Ah’m uh featured woman. Ah got white folks’ features in mah face. Still and all Ah got tuh be lumped in wid all de rest. It ain’t fair. Even if dey don’t take us in wid de whites, dey oughta make us uh class tuh ourselves."
Who is Mrs. Turner?
Who does Beneatha allude to by saying, “Thirty pieces and not a coin less” in response to Lindner’s offer?
Who is Judas?
Who said it? What's the context?
“He finally come into his manhood today, didn’t he? Kind of like a rainbow after the rain…”
Who is Mama Younger? When is after Walter sends Lindner away at the end of the play?
What is the temporal (time) setting of A Raisin in the Sun?
What is the 1950s?
Why does Myrtle try to flag down the yellow car?
What is because she saw Tom driving the yellow car earlier in the day?
Who said it?
“It’s a bona-fide piece of printed matter. It fooled me. This fella’s a regular Belasco. It’s a triumph. What thoroughness! What realism! Knew when to stop, too—didn’t cut the pages. But what do you want? What do you expect?”
Who is the Owl-Eyed Man?
What did Langston Hughes originally study?
What is engineering?
What is the name of the poem and who wrote it?
“They have seen as other saw
Their bubbles burst in air,
And they have learned to live it down
As though they did not care.”
What is "Old Black Men" & Georgia Douglas Johnson?
What does Janie “pull in and drape over her shoulder” at the end of the novel?
What is the horizon?
Who said it?
"Dat’s what makes me skeered. You don’t mean no harm. You don’t even know where harm is at. Ah’m ole now. Ah can’t be always guidin’ yo’ feet from harm and danger. Ah wants to see you married right away.”
Who is Nanny?
What can the scrambled eggs that Ruth makes for Walter each day symbolize, especially to Walter?
What is routine and a failure to try anything new?
Who said it? Why is it significant?
“I know—but sometimes she act like ain’t got time to pass the time of day with nobody ain’t been to college. Oh—I ain’t criticizing her none. It’s just—you know how some of our young people gets when they get a little education. (MAMA and RUTH say nothing, just look at her) Yes—well. Well, I guess I better get on home. (Unmoving) ’Course I can understand how she must be proud and everything—being the only one in the family to make something of herself. I know just being a chauffeur ain’t never satisfied Brother none. He shouldn’t feel like that, though. Ain’t nothing wrong with being a chauffeur.”
Who is Mrs. Johnson? Explanations will vary.