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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. What is Beneatha's main worry about Ruth's news?
(a) She wonders where the baby will live
(b) She wonders what will happen when Ruth is gone
(c) She wonders how to pay the medical bills
(d) She wonders whether Ruth can get a new job

2. What does Mama ask Travis?
(a) If he has done his homework yet
(b) If he found his missing socks
(c) Whether or not he's taken a bath
(d) If he finished his chores

3. What does Ruth think of Willie?
(a) That he is a good dresser and very polite
(b) She wonders why he hasn't been arrested
(c) She thinks he's a good-for-nothing loud mouth
(d) That he's much smarter than Walter Lee

4. What country is Beneatha's visitor originally from?
(a) Nigeria
(b) Canada
(c) Liberia
(d) Albania

5. How did Big Walter die, according to Mama?
(a) He died in a factory accident
(b) He was hit by a bus
(c) He committed suicide
(d) He worked himself to death

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mama react to Beneatha's statement that God no longer exists?

2. Who makes the first entrance?

3. What does Mama call the apartment?

4. What does Walter Lee want to do?

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

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