A Raisin in the Sun Vocab Who Said

Question 1

It’s furnishings are typical and _________

Answer 1

Undistinguished

Question 2

The boy gave her an _____________ look

Answer 2

Exasperated

Question 3

..the mood has changed and he is _________, he does not, however, move toward her

Answer 3

Vindicated

Question 4

She waits several seconds, trying to make up her mind about something, and looks at Ruth a little _________

Answer 4

Tentatively

Question 5

Studying her mother-in-law _________ and concentrating on her ironing…

Answer 5

Furtively

Question 6

Dropping her hands in a _________ gesture

Answer 6

Futile

Question 7

You mean save them from _________

Answer 7

Heathenism

Question 8

Ruth comes in _________ and pulls off her coat with dejection

Answer 8

Forlornly

Question 9

_________ is so popular in your country

Answer 9

Assimilationism

Question 10

_________ to her daughter

Answer 10

Insinuatingly

Question 11

She sets the headdress on _________

Answer 11

Haphazardly

Question 12

_________ fanning herself with an ornate oriental fan

Answer 12

Coquettishly

Question 13

Oh, don’t be so proud of yourself, Bennie - just because you look _________

Answer 13

Eccentirc

Question 14

(_________), Walter Lee - why don’t we just try to talk about it…

Answer 14

Plaintively

Question 15

Mama clamps her lips together, and Ruth advances towards her son _________

Answer 15

Menacingly

Question 16

Beneatha and George come in, _________ from an evening out again

Answer 16

Presumably

Question 17

She _________ him again and he starts to leave

Answer 17

Rebuffs

Question 18

Walter, you ain’t been to work for three days. (This is a _________ to her)

Answer 18

Revelation

Question 19

His happiness is deep in him; he cannot keep still with his new-found _________

Answer 19

Exuberance

Question 20

(_________, as he sits himself easily on a chair, leaning with interest forward on his knees and looking expectantly into the newcomer’s face.)

Answer 20

Amiably

Question 21

…and the hat is _________ and considerably oversized

Answer 21

Ludicrous

Question 22

In the living Beneatha sits at the table, still surrounded by the now almost _________ packing crates

Answer 22

Ominous

Question 23

What about all the crooks and petty thievesand just plain idiots who will come into power to steal and _________ the same as before

Answer 23

Plunder

Question 24

“Ah-so this is the New World hath finally _________…”

Answer 24

Wrought

Question 25

You give him up or me? You done wrote his _________ too-…

Answer 25

Epitaph