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

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

3. Mama asks Walter Lee if he is:
(a) Gambling and drinking
(b) Seeing another woman
(c) Thinking of suicide
(d) Working too hard

4. Where is the action of this play set?
(a) In a quiet house in a Chicago suburb
(b) In an apartment in a small town in Illinois
(c) In a small apartment in Chicago's Southside
(d) In a boarding house in New York City

5. What is Beneatha's relationship to Ruth?
(a) They are sisters, but Ruth is older
(b) Beneatha is Ruth's niece by marriage
(c) Ruth is Beneatha's sister-in-law
(d) Beneatha is Ruth's oldest daughter

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Walter Lee give Travis?

2. Where is the house that Mama bought?

3. Walter Lee and George argue about:

4. What does Travis do on his way out?

5. What does Ruth call Beneatha's hair style?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Mama react when her neighbor, Mrs. Johnson, refuses to lend her some cleanser?

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

3. Why is Ruth so embarrassed by Walter Lee and Beneatha when George Murchison comes in?

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

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

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

7. What conclusion do Ruth and Walter Lee come to about their marriage in this scene?

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

9. What is the importance of Mama's spindly plant to her character?

10. How do Walter Lee and Ruth react when Mama tells them she bought a house in Clybourne Park?

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