Raisin Act 1 Scene 1 quiz

Question 1

Lorraine Hansberry was the first black playwright and youngest American to win

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New York Critics’ Circle award

Question 2

Lorraine Hansberry was heavily involved in

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civil rights

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Lorraine Hansberry died at 34 from

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pancreatic cancer

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Lorraine Hansberry was the granddaughter of

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a freed slave

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Lorraine Hansberry was born in

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Chicago, Illinois

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Lorraine Hansberry’s father was

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a real estate broker

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Lorraine Hansberry’s mother was

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a schoolteacher

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Lorraine Hansberry’s parents donated to

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the NAACP and the Urban League

Question 9

What happened to Lorraine Hansberry’s family in 1938?

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Moved to a white neighborhood & were violently attacked by neighbors- refused to move until a court ordered it, and the case made it to the Supreme Court ruling restrictive covenants illegal

Question 10

Name of Lorraine Hansberry’s family’s Supreme Court court case

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Hansberry v. Lee

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College Lorraine Hansberry attended

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University of Wisconsin in Madison

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What happened to Lorraine Hansberry in college

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Changed major from painting to writing then dropped out & moved to NYC

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College that Lorraine Hansberry attended in NYC

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New School for Social Research

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What newspaper did Lorraine Hansberry work for?

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Paul Robeson’s progressive Black newspaper, Freedom

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what organization did Lorraine Hansberry join?

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Daughters of Bilitis

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What magazine did Lorraine Hansberry contribute letters to?

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The Ladder

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What did Lorraine Hansberry’s letters discuss?

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feminism and homophobia; revealed her lesbian identity under initials L.H.

Question 18

Original name of A Raisin in the Sun

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The Crystal Stair

Question 19

Where did Lorraine Hansberry get the name A Raisin in the Sun from?

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A Langston Hughes poem

Question 20

A Raisin in the Sun was the first play on Broadway…

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produced by a black woman

Question 21

The film version of A Raisin in the Sun received an award at the

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Cannes Film Festival

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Lorraine Hansberry’s civil rights associates

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Harry Belafonte, Lena Horne and James Baldwin

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Who did Lorraine Hansberry meet with to discuss civil rights?

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then-attorney general Robert Kennedy

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Lorraine Hansberry’s second play

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The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window

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Was Lorraine Hansberry's second play successful?

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no

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Lorraine Hansberry's husband

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Jewish songwriter Robert Nemiroff

Question 27

Where did Lorraine Hansberry meet her husband?

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a picket line

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was Lorraine Hansberry and her husband's marriage successful?

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no

Question 29

Nemiroff's adaption of Hansberry's writing and interviews

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To Be Young, Gifted and Black

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Awards that A Raisin in the Sun productions have won

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Emmy, Tony, and Best Revival of a Play

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the practice of requiring separate housing, education and other services for people of color

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segregation

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amendment guaranteeing liberation of enslaved people

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13th amendment

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One early plan for de-segregation

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sending freed slaves back to Africa

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first steps toward official segregation; passed throughout the South dictating most aspects of Black people's lives, including where they could work and live, ensured Black people’s availability for cheap labor after slavery was abolished.

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black codes

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Southern laws that made segregation an official policy

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Jim Crow laws

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Court case establishing separate but equal

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Plessy v. Ferguson

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court case finding discriminatory zoning illegal

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Buchanan v. Warley

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What city made a rule that families couldn't move in unless they could marry a majority of residents?

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Richmond, Virginia

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Period where a huge number of African Americans left the South

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The Great Migration

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What organization built almost no black homes in their post-WW2 relief effort?

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the Public Works Administration

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What practice by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation conspired to create maps with marked areas considered bad risks for mortgages- targeted black areas and forced blacks to not get or only get very expensive loans

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Red-lining

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Court case outlawing restrictive covanents

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Shelley v. Kramer

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The act created for returning WW2 soldiers that subsidized housing for whites only, even stipulating that Black families could not purchase the houses even on resale- government funded white flight

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The Housing Act of 1949

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created by The Housing Act of 1949, white only community

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Levittown, New York

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Court case banning segregation of children in public schools

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Brown v. Board of Education

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where was the national guard showdown that allowed 9 black kids to enter school?

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Little Rock, Arkansas

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Law signed in 1964, outlawing discrimination

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Civil Rights Act

Question 48

What city was the incident in which black kids were to be bused to white schools, white crowds greeted the buses with insults, and further violence erupted between Southie residents and retaliating Roxbury crowds. State troopers were called in until the violence subsided after a few weeks.

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Boston

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still-existing, largely segregated schools, where white students make up 0 to 10 percent of the student body

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apartheid schools

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depiction of people, things, and events as they really are without idealization or exaggeration for effect

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realism

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properties of realism

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realistic, relatable, not sugar-coated, often includes slang, follows middle/lower class, ordinary character-driven plot, a contrast to Romanticism, truth-seeking

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bleak & pessimistic view of experience in which characters struggle unsuccessfully to exercise free will

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naturalism

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properties of naturalism

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intentionally pessimistic, extremely affected by strong forces of science & environment, lack of control, hope, and power, futility, survival of the fittest, and exposes the dark side of society/life