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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1, Scene 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Walter Lee, money is:
(a) Life
(b) Important
(c) Worthless
(d) Evil

2. What does Alaiyo mean?
(a) One Who Fights Like a Warrior
(b) One for Whom the Goddess Calls
(c) One Who Dances Like the Peacock
(d) One for Whom Bread Is Not Enough

3. What does Ruth forbid Travis to do?
(a) Wear his baggy jeans to school
(b) Stop on the way to school for gum
(c) Turns up the radio so loudly
(d) Ask his grandmother for money

4. What does Travis do on his way out?
(a) Smacks Beneatha on the her bottom
(b) Steps on as many cockroaches as he can
(c) Tosses a basketball to his father
(d) Grabs his hat and jacket from a hook

5. What is the first thing Ruth does on stage?
(a) She reads the paper
(b) She starts breakfast
(c) She makes herself pretty
(d) She wakes Travis up

Short Answer Questions

1. How long did Mama and Big Walter plan on living in their apartment when they moved in?

2. Who makes the first entrance?

3. What does Ruth announce to Mama and Beneatha?

4. What gift does Beneatha's visitor bring?

5. What does Beneatha say she's going out to do?

(see the answer key)

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