Grab Bag
How does Walter and Ruth's relationship change throughout the play?
Their relationship gets better.
Who said "Because it doesn't seem deep enough, close enough to what ails mankind! It was a child's way of seeing things--or an idealist's."
Who is Beneatha
What does the word lingers mean in the following quote:
"We feel that this is a mood struck perhaps an hour before, and it lingers now, full of the empty sound of profound disappointment."
What is be about or sticks around
What is Mama referring to when she says, “We ain’t never been that dead inside”?
Even if the family did not have money, they always had pride
What literary device is being used in the following quote:
"BENEATHA: I know that's what you think. Because you are still where I left off. You with all your talk and dreams about Africa! You still think you can patch up the world. Cure the Great Sore of Colonialism (Loftily, mocking it) with the Penicillin of Independence!"
What is an allusion
Why does Beneatha says she wants to be a doctor?
Her desire to cure people and fix them up
Her childhood memory of Rufus
Her desire for knowledge
Who said "He finally come into his manhood today, didn't he? Kind of like a rainbow after the rain..."
Who is Mama (Lena)
What does the word illiteracy mean in the following quote:
"And I even will have moments when I wonder if the quiet was not better than all that death and hatred. But I will look about my village at the illiteracy and disease and ignorance and I will not wonder long."
What is an inability to read
Who is Mama talking about when she tells Beneatha, “the time to love someone the most...is when he’s at his lowest and can’t believe in himself”?
Walter
Where was Lorraine Hansberry born?
Chicago
Who says "Sometimes you just got to know when to give up some things...and hold on to what you got."
Who is Mama (Lena)
What does the word idealists mean in the following quote:
"And it is very odd but those who see the changes—who dream, who will not give up—are called idealists… and those who see only the circle—we call them the "realists"!"
What is someone not guided by practical considersations
What is Beneatha's tone in the following passage:
"There he is--Symbol of the Rising Class! Entrepreneur! Titan of the System!...Did you dream of yachts on Lake Michigan, Brother? Did you see yourself on that Great Day sitting down at the Conference Table, surrounded by all the mighty bald-headed men in America? All halted, waiting, breathless, waiting for your pronouncements on industry? Waiting for you—Chairman of the Board!"
What is sarcastic
In the passage below, what do the pearls symbolize?
"What's the matter with you all! I didn't make this world! It was give to me this way! Hell, yes, I want me some yachts someday! Yes, I want to hang some real pearls 'round my wife's neck. Ain't she supposed to wear no pearls? Somebody tell me--tell me, who decides which women is suppose to wear pearls in this world. I tell you I am a man —and I think my wife should wear some pearls in this world!"
finalncial stability/success
What term was used to describe the segregation against African Americans in regards to housing?
What is redlining
Who said "But did you earn it? Would you have had it at all if your father had not died?"
Who is Asagai
What does wrought mean in the following quote:
"Yes—just look at what the New World hath wrought!"
What is to cause to happen or to occur as a consequence
Based on Mama’s directions to Ruth in the beginning of the passage, Mama can be characterized as
MAMA: Well—ain't it a mess in here, though? (a false cheerfulness, a beginning of something) I guess we all better stop moping around and get some work done. All this unpacking and every-thing we got to do. (RUTH raises her head slowly in response to the sense of the line; BENEATHA in a similar manner turns very slowly to look at her mother.) One of you all better call the moving people and tell 'em not to come.
a. a realist b. an idealist c. an assimilationist d. an elitist
A. a realist
What were restrictive covenants in Chicago History?
A situation in which white property owners agreed not to sell to African Americans.
Who said "Well--we are dead now. All the talk about dreams and sunlight that goes on in this house. It's all dead now."
Who is Beneatha
What does the word reverie mean in the following quote:
"LINDNER: (To MAMA in her reverie) Then I would like to appeal to you, Mrs. Younger."
What is absentminded dreaming while awake (day dreaming)
In the passage below, Ruth can be characterized as a...
a. a realist b. an idealist c. an assimilationist d. an elitist
RUTH: Lena, no! We gotta go. Bennie—tell her . . . (She rises and crosses to BENEATHA with her arms outstretched. BENEATHA doesn't respond.) Tell her we can still move . . . the notes ain't but a hundred and twenty-five a month. We got four grown people in this house—we can work . . .
MAMA (to herself): Just aimed too high all time the —
RUTH (turning and going to MAMA fast—the words pouring out...): Lena—I'll work . . . I'll work twenty hours a day in all the kitchens in Chicago . . . I'll strap my baby on my back if I have to and scrub all the floors in America and wash all the sheets in America if I have to—but we got to MOVE! We got to get OUT OF HERE!!
What three literary devices are used in the following passage:
"What's the matter with you all! I didn't make this world! It was give to me this way! Hell, yes, I want me some yachts someday! Yes, I want to hang some real pearls 'round my wife's neck. Ain't she supposed to wear no pearls? Somebody tell me--tell me, who decides which women is suppose to wear pearls in this world. I tell you I am a man —and I think my wife should wear some pearls in this world!"
Rhetorical questions, parallel structure, and diction