A Raisin in the Sun Review

Lena “Mama” Younger is expecting to receive an insurance check worth how much money

• $1,000

• $5,000

• $10,000

•  $50,000

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

What does Lena keep on the windowsill in the kitchen of the Youngers’ apartment?

•  A photo of her husband, Big Walte

• A photo of her children, Walter and Beneatha

• A photo of the entire Younger family

• A small plant

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

Which of the following activities has Beneatha taken up at some point in her twenty-year-old life?

• Guitar lessons

•  Horseback riding

• Acting

• Photography

• All of the above

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

Which two characters get into a heated disagreement about whether God exists?

• Lena and Walter

• Lena and Ruth

• Lena and Beneatha

• Walter and Ruth

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CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.1.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

Which of the following characters insists that he or she is still “the head of this family” (51)?

• Lena

• Walter

• Ruth

• Beneatha

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

Who said it?

“We was going to set away, little by little, don’t you know, and buy a little place out in Morgan Park. We had even picked out the house. Looks right dumpy today. But Lord, child, you should know all the dreams I had ’bout buying that house and fixing it up and making me a little garden in the back” (44-45).

• Lena

• Walter

• Beneatha

• Ruth

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

Who said it?

“I don’t flit! I — I experiment with different forms of expression — […] People have to express themselves one way or another” (48)..

• Lena

• Walter

• Beneatha

• Ruth

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

Who said it?

“I’m not worried about who I’m going to marry yet — if I ever get married” (50).

• Lena

• Walter

• Beneatha

• Ruth

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

Who said it?

“Well, I always wanted me a garden like I used to see sometimes at the back of the houses down home. This plant is the close as I ever got to having one” (53)

• Lena

• Walter

• Beneatha

• Ruth

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

The character of Joseph Asagai was born and raised in what country?

• Nigeria

• Liberia

• Egypt

• Canada

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.3