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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mama keep on the windowsill?
(a) A small houseplant
(b) An old wind-up clock
(c) A good-luck statue
(d) A picture of her husband

2. What does Walter Lee want to do?
(a) Go to college and become a doctor
(b) Buy a limosine and run a car service
(c) Open a liquor store with his friends
(d) Drink and have fun with his friends

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

4. What is the time period of the play?
(a) Late 1960s through late 1970s
(b) Early 1960s through early1970s
(c) Late 1930s through the late 1940s
(d) Late 1940s through late 1950s

5. Where is the action of this play set?
(a) In a boarding house in New York City
(b) In a quiet house in a Chicago suburb
(c) In an apartment in a small town in Illinois
(d) In a small apartment in Chicago's Southside

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ruth think of Willie?

2. About how old is Walter Lee Younger?

3. Where does Travis sleep?

4. Who makes the first entrance?

5. What was the former function of Ruth and Walter Lee's bedroom?

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