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She wants to own her own house.
Who is Mama?
100
Ruth learns she is pregnant; Mama makes a down payment on a house.
What is the rising action?
100
"...That's the way the cookie crumbles is an example of a/an______________.
What is an idiom?
100
The Youngers are waiting for this.
What is a $10,000 insurance check?
100
This was Walter's initial reaction to Mr. Lindner.
What is he is offended and tells Mr. Lindner to leave the apartment?
200
He is a chauffer who wants to invest in a liquor store.
Who is Walter?
200
Bobo tells Walter that Willie has run off with their money.
What is the climax?
200
"The money is made of my father's flesh is an example of a/an
What is a metaphor?
200
Beneatha says she won't marry George for this reason.
What is he too shallow?
200
The was the reason Mama bought a house in a predominantly white neighborhood.
What is she got the best house she could with the money she had?
300
She is Walter's wife.
Who is Ruth?
300
A rundown apartment in Chicago's South side in the 1950's.
What is the setting?
300
The following is an example of what literary element -- George says - "A lecture on the African past. Our great African heritage...Let's face it baby, your heritage is nothing but a bunch of raggedy spirituals and some grass huts."
What is situational irony?
300
Mama says this is dangerous.
What is when God is forgotten in the home?
300
This was Mama's initial reaction to the news that Walter had lost the remaining $6500 of the insurance money.
What is she starts hitting him?
400
She wants to be a doctor.
Who is Beneatha?
400
The Youngers move into their new house in Clybourne Park.
What is the resolution?
400
Ruth says "I will work 20 hours a day in all the kitchens across Chicago." This is an example of a/an__________.
What is a hyperbole?
400
Mama and Ruth approve of Beneatha dating George because of this.
What is he and his family are wealthy?
400
This is what Mama decides to do with the money.
What is use $3500 as a down payment on a house and give Walter the remaining $6500 with instructions that he set aside $3000 for Beneatha's education.?
500
He is Walter and Ruth's son.
Who is Travis?
500
Walter decides to accept Lindner's offer; Asagai proposes to Beneatha.
What is the falling action?
500
Mrs. Johnson tells Mama the news of a black family's home in a white neighborhood being bombed.
What is foreshadowing?
500
Mr. Linder wants the Youngers to do this.
What is not move to Clybourne Park?
500
Beneatha later says she does not want to be a doctor for this reason.
What is she has no belief in the goodness of humans?