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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. Ruth is doing a domestic chore. What is it?
(a) Dusting
(b) Scrubbing
(c) Sweeping
(d) Ironing

2. What does Travis ask Mama?
(a) If he can spray the roaches
(b) What smells so nasty
(c) Permission to go outside
(d) Where his clean socks are

3. What was the former function of Ruth and Walter Lee's bedroom?
(a) It was a breakfast alcove
(b) It was a storage area
(c) It was a large closet
(d) It was the dining room

4. What does he mean by that term?
(a) That she has cut it in too many layers
(b) That she combs into a million braids
(c) That she dyes it with blonde streaks
(d) That she straightens it to look Caucasian

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Travis ask his mother for?

2. How does Beneatha's visitor treat Mama?

3. What does Mama chide Ruth about?

4. What country is Beneatha's visitor originally from?

5. Where did Mama go?

(see the answer key)

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