A Raisin in the Sun Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 103 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

A Raisin in the Sun Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 103 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the paper, Walter Lee reads about:
(a) A garbage strike
(b) Another bomb test
(c) A recent murder
(d) A battle in France

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

3. Ruth changes her mind about
(a) Doing the dishes
(b) Whipping Travis
(c) Arguing with Walter Lee
(d) Going to the store

4. Walter Lee has been out talking to:
(a) George Murchison
(b) The bartender
(c) Willie Harris
(d) Bobo

5. What does Mama call the apartment?
(a) Our little home
(b) A cozy place
(c) A fire hazard
(d) A rat trap

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Travis ask his mother for?

2. What does Ruth think of Willie?

3. Who comes to visit Beneatha in this scene?

4. What is Beneatha's current ambition in life?

5. Who makes the first entrance?

Short Essay Questions

1. Which members of the Younger family share each of the two bedrooms?

2. What does Ruth urge Mama to do with the insurance money for Big Walter's death?

3. Walter Lee mentions that Mama is expecting something to arrive in the mail. What is she expecting?

4. What is Ruth referring to when she talks to George about "them bombs and things they keep setting off?"

5. What is Beneatha afraid that Mama will do when Beneatha's visitor arrives?

6. What is Mama waiting for Walter Lee to do after she tells him about Ruth's pregnancy?

7. Mama already has plans for the insurance money. What are they?

8. How does Beneatha differ from the other members of her family?

9. Ruth scolds Walter Lee for keeping Travis up the night before. How did Walter Lee do that?

10. Describe Walter Lee's future, as he sees it.

(see the answer keys)

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