Characters
Walter and Ruth's son, the sixth generation of Youngers
Who is Travis?
The Yoruba word for "One for whom bread - food - is not enough?"
What is "Alaiyo"?
The decade in which the play takes place.
What is 1950s
What Hughes' poem means by "a dream deferred."
What is a dream that is put off or not realized.
In a symbolic gesture, this is Hansberry's last character to leave the stage.
Who is mama
The time period between 1916 and 1970 marked by a massive relocation of African Americans leaving the South
What is the Great Migration?
Walter's future business partners.
Who are Willie Harris and Bobo?
The (1)speaker and (2)audience of the following quotation:
“Man say to his woman: I got me a dream. His woman say: Eat your eggs. Man say: I got to take hold of this here world, baby! And a woman will say, Eat your eggs and go to work. Man say: I got to change my life, I’m choking to death, baby! And his woman say—Your eggs is getting cold!”
Who are (1) Walter Lee and (2) Ruth?
Where the Youngers' family apartment is located.
What is Chicago's South Side?
Mama's dream.
To own a home and have a garden
To Asagai, Beneatha's "mutilated" hair means that she is this.
What is an assimilationist
The Supreme Court case that ruled residential zoning ordinances unconstitutional, but paved the way for restrictive covenants on privately owned and sold property.
What is Buchanan v. Warley, 1917?
This character takes off with Walter's investment money.
Who is Willie Harris?
The (1)speaker and (2)audience of the following quotation:
“What do you think you are going to gain by moving into a neighborhood where you just aren’t wanted and where some elements—well—people can get awful worked up when they feel that their whole way of life and everything they’ve ever worked for is threatened. . . . You just can’t force people to change their hearts, son.”
Who are (1) Karl Lindner and (2) Walter Lee?
The Youngers have to share this with other people in their building.
What is the bathroom.
How Walter's dreams are deferred in the play.
What is Ruth would not listen to him, initially Mama would not give him control of the insurance money, the money is stolen
Mama's plant symbolizes this.
What is the Younger family, mama's desire to have a garden, her struggles, and/or the desire for freedom
This is an agreement in a deed to property governing future use of that property
What is a restrictive covenant?
This representative of the Clybourne Park Improvement Association visits the Youngers in their apartment.
Who is Karl Lindner
The (1)speaker and (2)audience of the following quotation:
“Then isn’t there something wrong in a house—in a world—where all dreams, good or bad, must depend on the death of a man?”
Who are (1) Joseph Asagai and (2) Beneatha?
Where the Youngers' new home is located.
What is Clybourne Park?
How Beneatha's dreams are deferred in the play.
What is the money is stolen by Willie Harris
In a symbolic gesture to be like his dad, Travis wants to be this when he grows up.
What is a bus driver
Lorraine Hansberry's father's profession
What is real estate broker?
This character best exemplifies African heritage
Who is Joseph Asagai?
The (1)speaker and (2)audience of the following quotation:
“I seen . . . him . . . night after night . . . come in . . . and look at that rug . . . and then look at me . . . the red showing in his eyes . . . the veins moving in his head . . . I seen him grow thin and old before he was forty . . . working and working and working like somebody’s old horse . . . killing himself . . . and you—you give it all away in one day—”
Who are (1) Mama and (2) Walter Lee?
Mama tells Travis to stay in this room when Walter confronts Lindner about his offer.
What is the living room?
The following quote describes this character: "Being a woman who has adjusted to many things in life and overcome many more, her face is full of strength."
Who is mama
Walter then employs the phrase to illustrate how women keep men from achieving their goal.
What is "Eat your eggs"
The Supreme Court case that ruled restrictive covenants were unconstitutional
What is Hansberry v. Lee?
The son of a prosperous Black family who dates Beneatha
Who is George Murchison?
The (1)speaker and (2)audience of the following quotation:
“Man . . . I tursted you . . . Man, I put my life in your hands . . . Man . . . THAT MONEY IS MADE OUT OF MY FATHER’S FLESH—”
Who are (1) Walter Lee and (2) Willie Harris ?
The creatures in the house and alley that suggest the living conditions are poor in the Youngers' neighborhood
What are roaches and rats?
The reason Walter Lee and George think Beneatha's dream to become a doctor is silly
What is women were not "supposed" to be doctors (women were supposed to be wives or nurses--all viable answers accepted)?
Beneatha's "new" hairstyle
What is accepting one's heritage/disregarding (white) society's expectations (all viable answers accepted)
The literary significance of A Raisin in the Sun (you must get at least two correct for credit)
What is (1) first play written by an African American woman produced on Broadway; (2) first play directed by an African American on Broadway; (3) a turning point in American art and drama b/c it addresses many issues important during the 1950s; (4) first honest depiction of a black family on an American stage?