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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. What is the time period of the play?
(a) Late 1940s through late 1950s
(b) Early 1960s through early1970s
(c) Late 1960s through late 1970s
(d) Late 1930s through the late 1940s

2. What does Walter Lee give Travis?
(a) A hug
(b) Fifty cents
(c) A kiss
(d) A dollar

3. Where did Mama go?
(a) To buy groceries
(b) To Travis' school
(c) To tend to business
(d) To visit the neighbor

4. How long did Mama and Big Walter plan on living in their apartment when they moved in?
(a) Two years
(b) Ten years
(c) Five years
(d) One year

5. Who is acting as head of the Younger family?
(a) Ruth
(b) Mama
(c) Travis
(d) Walter Lee

Short Answer Questions

1. She puts on a phonograph record of:

2. Where will George take Beneatha on their date?Where will George take Beneatha on their date?

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

4. What is Beneatha's relationship to Ruth?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Mama react to Beneatha asking whether Ruth "planned" her baby?

2. How does the author let the reader know that Beneatha is inauthentic in the way she wears her Nigerian costume?

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

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

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

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

7. Why do Ruth and Walter Lee react so strongly to the idea of moving to Clybourne Park?

8. Why is Beneatha reluctant to let a visitor come over to the apartment on this morning?

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

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

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