A Raisin in the Sun - Final Unit Test

Posljednje ažuriranje almost 3 years ago

A Raisin in the Sun - Final Unit Test

Posljednje ažuriranje almost 3 years ago

Match the quote with the correct character "Perhaps I will be a great [person]...perhaps I will hold on to the substance of truth and find my way always with the right course..."

A) Mama Younger

B) Ruth Younger

C) George Murchison

D) Joseph Asagai

Match the quote with the correct character "Something eating you up like a crazy man...You get all nervous acting and kind of wild in the eyes -".

A) Mama Younger

B) Ruth Younger

C) George Murchison

D) Joseph Asagai

Match the quote with the correct character "[T]hen I say it loud and good, Hallelujah! and goodbye misery...I don't never want to see your ugly face again!"

A) Mama Younger

B) Ruth Younger

C) George Murchison

D) Joseph Asagai

Match the quote with the correct character "Look honey, we're going to the theatre - we're not going to be in it...so go change, huh?"

A) Mama Younger

B) Ruth Younger

C) George Murchison

D) Joseph Asagai

Match the quote with the correct character "Sometimes it's like I can see the future stretched out in front of me...Hanging over there at the edge of my days. Just waiting for me - a big, looming blank space..."

A) Walter Younger

B) Beneatha Younger

C) Travis Younger

D) Karl Lindner

Match the quote with the correct character "It's all a matter of ideas, and God is just one idea I don't accept...I am not going out and commit crimes or be immoral because I don't believe in God."

A) Walter Younger

B) Beneatha Younger

C) Travis Younger

D) Karl Lindner

Match the quote with the correct character "[M]ost of the trouble in this world...exists because people just don't sit down and talk to each other...That we don't try hard enough in this world to understand the other fellow's problem."

A) Walter Younger

B) Beneatha Younger

C) Travis Younger

D) Karl Lindner

Match the literary term with the best example: The Clybourne Park "welcoming committee" offers to pay the Youngers in exchange for staying out of Clybourne Park.

A) Allusion

B) Personification

C) Foreshadowing

D) Situational Irony

Match the literary term with the best example: Beneatha's educated friend calls Walter "Prometheus."

A) Allusion

B) Flashback

C) Foreshadowing

D) Situational Irony

What is the title of the poem that prefaces "A Raisin in the Sun?"

A) "Harlem"

B) "Chicago"

C) "A Dream Deferred"

D) "Explode"

A) The characters fell that they have deferred their dreams

B) During this time, being African American could be mentally oppressive or "heavy"

C) Walter's life made it feel as though he could "explode" with anger

D) All of the above statements are correct

Hansberry's use of the Langston Hughes poem is an example of which of the following?

A) Irony

B) Allusion

C) Symbolism

D) Foreshadowing

During which two days of the week do the events in the play occur?

A) Sundays and Mondays

B) Thursdays and Fridays

C) Fridays and Saturdays

D) Wednesdays and Thursdays

Which of the following best describes Mama?

A) She is an optimist

B) She holds the family together

C) She is traditional

D) All of the above statements are correct

Which of the following statements best describes Beneatha?

A) She is an optimist

B) She holds the family together

C) She is traditional

D) All of the above statements are correct

Why was Ruth upset when Walter gave Travis $1?

A) They did not have $1 to spare

B) It made Ruth look like she was a liar

C) Ruth needed the money for bus fare

D) Travis was lying and did not need the money

A) Walter was having a bad morning

B) Walter knows that eggs are all the family can afford for breakfast

C) Walter wants Ruth to listen to his plans

D) None of the above statements are correct

A) "Little Idiot"

B) "One for Whom Bread is Not Enough"

C) One for Whom Books is Not Enough"

D) "Burning Spear"

A) It's unnatural

B) It isn't assimilative

C) It's too long

D) All of the above statements are correct

A) Willy

B) Bobo

C) Travis

D) Mr. Lindner

A) He is an intellectual

B) He is handsome and wealthy

C) He listens to Beneatha

D) All of the above statements are correct

A) George is confident about his future; Walter is not

B) George is well-educated; Walter is not

C) George is an assimilationist; Walter is not

D) All of the above statements are correct

A) Mama

B) Beneatha

C) Both Mama and Beneatha

D) None of the above choices are correct

A) A new plant

B) A gardening hat

C) A set of gardening tools

D) A gardening book

A) Karl Lindner

B) Bobo

C) Willy

D) Ruth

A) Ruth doesn't want to hear about Walter's liquor store plans

B) Walter works at a job that he does not like

C) Mama isn't sure she wants to share the insurance money with Walter

D) All of the above statements are correct

Which of the following best describes Walter's "dream"?

A) He wants fame

B) He wants a fancy house

C) He wants to be well-educated

D) He wants to live "the American Dream"

Which character trait best describes Walter in the play?

A) Detached

B) Ambitious

C) Optimistic

D) Grounded

How does Ruth and Walter's relationship change overall throughout the play?

A) Their troubled relationship gets worse

B) Their troubled relationship grows stronger

C) Their close relationship begins to falter

D) Their close relationship grows stronger

In the last act of the play, what does Walter say is "old time stuff"?

A) Money

B) Nice homes

C) Pride

D) Assimilation

What is Mama referring to when she tells Walter, "We ain't never been that dead inside"?

A) Even if they didn't have money, they had pride

B) Even if they didn't have money, they had control of their emotions

C) Even if they didn't have money, they had family

D) All of the above statements are correct

A) "Hallelujah!"

B) "And goodbye!"

C) "You know how young folks is."

D) She says all of the statements listed above

A) George Murchison

B) Joseph Asagai

C) Her father

D) Walter

A) Beneatha

B) George Murchison

C) Joseph Asagai

D) Walter

A) Beneatha

B) George Murchison

C) Joseph Asagai

D) Walter

A) Religion

B) Equality

C) Cultural heritage

D) Schooling policies

A) Beneatha states that she may not get married

B) Beneatha considers going to Africa

C) Beneatha doesn't put up with any insults from Walter

D) All of the above statements are correct

A) First assimilation, then African American pride

B) First African American pride, then assimilation

C) Only African American pride

D) Only assimilation

A) Care for her family

B) Hope

C) Change

D) All the of above choices are correct

A) Assimilation

B) Ambition

C) Danger

D) Hope

A) The value of dreams

B) The need to fight racial discrimination

C) The importance of family

D) All of the above choices are correct

A) Setting

B) Symbolism

C) Conflict

D) All of the above choices are correct

A) Mama

B) Ruth

C) Walter

D) Beneatha

A) a new plant to take with the family when they move

B) a pair of sunglasses

C) a new set of gardening gloves

D) a new gardening hat

A) take her home with him to Nigeria so she can practice medicine

B) marry her immediately after the family moves to Clybourne part and remain in Chicago

C) inform the family of their engagement and then plan for a wedding the following summer

D) none of the above choices are correct