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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 does Walter Lee say when Ruth says she's considering an abortion?
(a) He says nothing
(b) You can't do that
(c) It's a good idea
(d) Let's talk about it

2. How does Mama react to Beneatha's statement that God no longer exists?
(a) She leaves the room
(b) She agree with Beneatha
(c) She slaps Beneatha
(d) She begins to pray

3. Mama's real name is:
(a) Lena
(b) Lora
(c) Mabel
(d) Rose

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mama call the apartment?

2. How does Beneatha's visitor treat Mama?

3. Walter Lee and George argue about:

4. What is revealed when Beneatha takes off her headdress?

5. What is Beneatha's task?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What function does Joseph Asagai provide in this play about an African-American family?

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

4. Travis asks repeatedly where his mother, Ruth, is during this scene. Why doesn't Mama answer his question?

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

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

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

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

9. What does Walter Lee taunt George about as they wait for Beneatha?

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

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