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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 Mama tell Walter Lee about Ruth?
(a) That she's pregnant
(b) That she's dying
(c) She needs his love
(d) She works too hard

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

3. In the paper, Walter Lee reads about:
(a) A recent murder
(b) A garbage strike
(c) A battle in France
(d) Another bomb test

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

5. What does Ruth call Beneatha's hair style?
(a) Natural
(b) Boyish
(c) Nappy
(d) Stylish

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Beneatha expect to get her tuition from?

2. What does Ruth do at the end of the scene?

3. When will the family move?

4. Ruth tells Walter Lee she is sorry about:

5. What is Beneatha's relationship to Ruth?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Walter Lee get upset at Mama when she tells him about her plans for the insurance money?

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

3. Describe Walter Lee's future, as he sees it.

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

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

6. Why do you think Ruth fainted at the end of the scene?

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

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

9. Why did Mama decide to buy a new house for the family?

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

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