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RAISIN IN THE SUN
JUNIORS
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who are Willy and Bobo? | Walter's future business partners |
| Walter said, "Damn my eggs . . . damn all the eggs that ever was!" Why? | He thinks that Ruth is stuck on the trivial details of life |
| Who is Beneatha? | Walter's sister |
| Why was Mama getting a check for $10,000? | It was insurance money from her husband's life insurance. |
| What was Beneatha’s motive for not marrying George Murchison? | He is a conceited, shallow, fool. |
| What attitude towards God did Beneatha express in the play? | God is not responsible for what people do |
| Who is Joseph Asagai? | Beneath's African friend |
| Why does Asagai's nickname for Beneatha mean | It means "One for Whom Bread - food - Is Not Enough." |
| What are "assimilationists”? | People who give up their cultural heritage and take on the culture of America |
| What did Mama do with her money? | Made a down payment on a home and gave the rest to Walter for safekeeping |
| What did Walter want to do with the money? | Buy a Liquor store |
| Who has old-fashioned and conservative views? | Mama Younger |
| The "furniture crowded" apartment that is clearly too small for its five occupants is in one of the poorer sections of where? | Chicago's Southside |
| What is a dramatic work that's written to be staged in a theater and in front of an audience. | a play |
| (Her son sits up at last, in a ____________of sleepiness) I say hurry up, Travis! | stupor |
| What is marginal consciousness? | stupor |
| He is a lean, intense young man in his middle thirties, inclined to quick nervous movements and erratic speech habits and always in his voice there is a quality of __________. | indictment |
| Indictment is what? | accusation of wrongdoing |