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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was the name of the baby Mama and Big Walter lost?
(a) Benjamin
(b) Claude
(c) Joseph
(d) Mary

3. Where does Travis sleep?
(a) On the fire escape
(b) In the curtained alcove
(c) In the living room
(d) In a bedroom off the hall

4. Under the influence of alcohol, Walter Lee dramatically ridicules what?
(a) His job as a chauffeur
(b) His mother's cooking
(c) His wife's figure
(d) His African heritage

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are Mama and Beneatha doing in the beginning of this scene?

2. Walter Lee is bitter and disappointed. Why?

3. Walter Lee and George argue about:

4. What does Walter Lee do when he sees the check?

5. According to Walter Lee, money is:

(see the answer key)

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