Raisin in the Sun

Who is Beneatha?

• Mama

• Walter and Ruth
  Walter and Ruth daughter

• Travis's sister

• Walter's sister

The stage directions say that the living room in the Younger apartment might be comfortable and well-ordered, but "weariness" has "won in this room". Which physical details of the living room set show these qualities?

• Now the once loved pattern of the couch upholstery has to fight to show itself from under acres of crocheted doilies...

• ....but the carpet has fought back by showing its weariness, with depressing uniformity....

• What happens to a dream deferred?

• ...their primary feature now is that they have clearly had to accommodate the living of too many people for too many years...

The act begins with...

• Ruth ironing clothes

• Walter crying in his bedroom

• Asagai arriving at the Younger house to help pack

• Travis chasing a rat

When Walter calls Lindner to sign the papers for the sale of the house...

• Walter signs the papers in a closed room

• Ruth refuses to answer the door

• Benetha calls Walter a nut

• Mama insists that Travis stay in the room so that Walter would be forced to show his son how a Younger man really behaves.

What does Mama's plant symbolize?

• Hope

• Faithfulness

• Perseverance

• All of the Above

Who does Mama scold for looking down on Walter?

• Beneatha

• Travis

• Ruth

• Mr. Lindner

The final time that Walter talks to Lindner toward the end of the play, whose presence has the greatest effect on Walter's actions and decisions?

• Beneatha

• Mama

• Ruth

• Travis

Benetha tells Mama that...

• Asagai is moving back to Africa

• That she has decided not to become a doctor

• She is moving to Kenosha

• That Asagai has asked her to marry him

When the family firmly turns down Karl Lindner once and for all, Lindner...

• Tells the family that they don't know what they are getting themselves into

• That there is a welcome party on Saturday

• Threatens the family

• Offers more money for the house

Walter invites Lindner to the apartment to...

• collect the Welcoming Committee money

• invite him over for dinner

• Talk to him about planning a welcome party on Saturday

• Ask for his help in tracking down Willy Harris