Location Location Location
Scene 1
Scene 2
Literary Devices
Vocab
100

This is the name of the bar Walter goes to.

The Green Hat

100

This is the news that Mamma breaks to the family, first to Travis. 

What is she put a down payment on a house?

100

This is how much time has passed between scenes 1 and 2. 

What is a few weeks?

100

This is the literary device in this quote from Walter. "Bitter? Man, I'm a volcano."

What is metaphor?

100

Give a synonym for "graft" as used in A Raisin in the Sun. 

What is bribery or fraud?

200

In the beginning of Act 2 Beneatha is wearing clothes from this country from Asagai.
*Double points* if you can also name the tribe.

Where is Nigeria and Yoruba tribe?

200
This slang term is an idiom for a Jazz musician. 

What is cool cat?

200

Beneatha thanks her mother for this.

What is for understanding her this time?

200

Beneatha saying Mrs. Johnson is as bad as the Ku Klux Klan is this literary device. 

What is hyperbole?

200

Define "incredulity"

What is disbelief?

300

George says the curtain time is 8:40 in this city. 

Where is New York?

300

These two individuals normally fight, but instead dance and act together in this scene.

Who are Beneatha and Walter?

300

This is what Ruth learns on the phone call. 

What is Walter has not been in to work for 3 days?

300

George referring to Walter as a titan God is this literary device.
*double points for the titan god's name spelled correctly!

What is allusion and Prometheus?

300

Define "indictment"

What is accusation of a serious crime?

400

This is the location of the house Mama put a down payment on.

Clybourne Park

400

This is the idea that Walter has for George.

What is talk with him and his father about business?

400

Walter says to Travis, "just name it and ...."

What is "I'll give you the world!"?

400

Mrs. Johnson (The Youngers' racist neighbor) quoting Booker T. Washington (one of the country's primary advocates for racial equality) is this literary device.

What is irony?

400

Asagai defines this word as "One for Whom Bread- Food- is Not Enough"

What is "Alaiyo"?

500

Walter skips work for three days, these locations are where he goes. 

Where is a farm in Wisconsin, steel mills of South Chicago, and 39th/South Parkway?

500

This is what Walter accuses Mama of doing to his dreams at the end of the scene. 

What is "butchered up"?

500

This is what Mama gives Walter and what she tells him to do.

What is $6500 (the rest of the money)? What is take it and put it in a fund for Beneatha and a bank account for him to have and be the head of the family?

500

Mrs. Johnson implying the Youngers being bombed when they move into a white neighborhood is this literary device.  

What is foreshadowing?

500

Beneatha defines "assimilation" as this.

What is giving up your culture and heritage in order to submerge oneself within the dominant, and in this case oppressive, culture?