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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. Where does Mama tell Beneatha that Ruth has gone?
(a) To visit a neighbor
(b) To see the doctor
(c) To the post office
(d) To get her hair done

2. What gift does Beneatha's visitor bring?
(a) A large cake
(b) A little puppy
(c) Flowers and candy
(d) Records and robes

3. What term does he use to describe Beneatha's hair?
(a) Stylish
(b) Disfigured
(c) American
(d) Mutilated

4. What does Travis do on his way out?
(a) Tosses a basketball to his father
(b) Smacks Beneatha on the her bottom
(c) Steps on as many cockroaches as he can
(d) Grabs his hat and jacket from a hook

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Mama tells Travis that she has:

2. What does Mama warn Walter Lee about?

3. How long did Mama and Big Walter plan on living in their apartment when they moved in?

4. Who makes the first entrance?

5. What does Walter Lee say when Ruth says she's considering an abortion?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why is Mama suspicious when Ruth refers to the doctor as a female?

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

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

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

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

9. What does Walter Lee do when he sees Beneatha in her Nigerian costume?

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

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