A Raisin in the Sun Quiz

Who is Beneatha? What does she want to be? *

• Walter's sister. She wants to be a doctor.

• Walter's mother. She wants to travel.

• Ruth's sister. She wants to be a nurse.

• Walter's wife. She wants to be a mother.

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Who is Mama?

• Walter and Beneatha's mother

• Ruth's mother

• Travis' mother

• A random woman

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What is the setting of the play?

• 1867, Louisiana

• 1950's, Southside of Chicago in an apartment

• 1970's in Nebraska

• Present Day in New York

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What is Walter's dream (ambition)?

• To be a cab driver

• To be a math teacher

• To open a liquor store

• To have 5 children

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Why is Mama getting a check for $10,000?

• Because she won the lottery

• Because she filed for worker's comp

• Because Big Walter (her husband) died and she is collecting his life insurance

• Because she literally robbed a bank

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What do we find out about Ruth?

• She is actually rich!

• She wants a divorce from Walter

• She is moving out

• She is pregnant and trying to decide if she should keep the baby

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Why did Beneatha say she wouldn't marry George?

• He was too smart

• He was too stupid

• He was too shallow

• He was too poor

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Who are Willy and Bobo?

• Friends of Mama

• Walter's friends/future business partners

• Ruth's boyfriends

• Beneatha's love interests

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True or False: Mama and Ruth like the idea of Walter opening the liquor store with Willy and Bobo.

• True

• False

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Who is Joseph Asagai?

• Walter's brother

• Mama's husband

• A fish

• Beneatha's friend (and someone she has a crush on)

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