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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Beneatha say she's going out to do?
(a) To buy herself some books
(b) To get a ticket to Nigeria
(c) To get herself a good job
(d) To become a Queen of the Nile

3. What does Ruth announce to Mama and Beneatha?
(a) That she's been fired
(b) That she's pregnant
(c) That she got a new job
(d) That she's feeling ill

4. What does Mama urge Ruth to do?
(a) Save money by buying on sale
(b) Buy herself a new outfit
(c) Hurry up and leave for work
(d) Stay home from work to rest

5. What does Mama tell Walter Lee about Ruth?
(a) She needs his love
(b) She works too hard
(c) That she's dying
(d) That she's pregnant

6. What is Beneatha's task?
(a) Washing down walls
(b) Sweeping the floor
(c) Spraying cockroaches
(d) Scrubbing kitchen counters

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

8. What does Mama warn Walter Lee about?
(a) That he's going to lose his job
(b) That his work is too dangerous
(c) That he's getting too greedy
(d) That Ruth might leave him

9. What are Mama and Beneatha doing in the beginning of this scene?
(a) Paying bills
(b) Baking bread
(c) Cleaning the house
(d) Washing dishes

10. When will the family move?
(a) Next week
(b) The first of the month
(c) In two weeks
(d) In ten days

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

12. What does Ruth call Beneatha's hair style?
(a) Natural
(b) Stylish
(c) Boyish
(d) Nappy

13. Why does Walter come back after leaving the apartment?
(a) He needs carfare from Ruth
(b) He wants to yell at Beneatha
(c) He forgot to kiss Ruth goodbye
(d) It's raining and he needs an umbrella

14. Who makes the first entrance?
(a) Travis
(b) Mama
(c) Ruth
(d) Beneatha

15. What is revealed when Beneatha takes off her headdress?
(a) A bleached color
(b) Two long braids
(c) Many corn rows
(d) A short, natural haircut

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Beneatha's relationship to Ruth?

2. Ruth changes her mind about

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

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

5. What is in the letter they are expecting?

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