RITS

Question 1

Explain why Mama slaps Beneatha

Answer 1

Because Beneatha claims there is no God. She doesn’t believe God creates miracles, only man himself.

Question 2

Why does Ruth believe Beneatha should marry George?

Answer 2

Because he is rich.

Question 3

Explain how Mama and Walter disagree about life.

Answer 3

Mama thinks life is freedom and Walter thinks life is money.

Question 4

What is Beneatha’s nickname and explain what it means in regard to Beneatha.

Answer 4

Alaiyo.. one for whom bread/ food is not enough.

For Beneatha, just following what is expected of woman, of people of color, is not enough. She wants more, to become a doctor.

Question 5

Why does Mama get upset when the check comes?

Answer 5

Because it suggests a value of 10,000 dollars on her husband’s life.

Question 6

What does Asagai bring for Beneatha?

Answer 6

His sister’s robes and Nigerian records.

Question 7

Ruth didn’t go to a doctor. What is she thinking of doing and why?

Answer 7

Abortion because of their current living conditions and the relationship between she and Walter.

Question 8

Why is Beneatha so upset about Asagai implying she is an assimilationist?

Answer 8

Because Beneatha has been resisting/ fighting against society’s expectations.

Question 9

What is Beneatha’s definition of an assimilationist?

Answer 9

Someone that submerges themselves in the dominant and oppressive culture

Question 10

What did Mama do with $3500 of the money?

Answer 10

Put a down payment on a house in Clybourne Park

Question 11

What is George Murchinson’s opinion of African heritage, in general?

Answer 11

He does not appreciate it or relate to it. He definitely looks down on it. “Raggedy-ass grass huts”

Question 12

What news does Mrs. Johnson bring the Youngers?

Answer 12

That a black family’s home was bombed.

Question 13

What does WAlter accuse Mama of after she tells the family about the house ?

Answer 13

That she butchered up his dream.

Question 14

Where did Walter go those three days he skipped work?

Answer 14

Drove out of town to the factories, the farms, sat down on the curb in the neighborhood and after each, the Green Hat.

Question 15

What risk did Mama take that showed her trust in Walter?

Answer 15

She turned over the rest of the money to Walter with instructions to bank some foe Beneatha’s schooling and the rest for Walter to manage for the family.

Question 16

In what ways do Beneatha’s and George’s opinión about education differ.

Answer 16

Beneatha thinks, questions, and wants to discuss things and George only does was is necessary to pass the classes to get his degree.

Question 17

What phrase does Mr. Lindner use that hints at his racism!

Answer 17

You people

Question 18

Why does a Beneatha allude to Judas (from the Bible) when Mr. Lindner makes his offer?

Answer 18

It was just like when Judas was offered to betray Jesus, one of his own. Lindner was making the Youngers an offer that if they accepted, would betray their race.

Question 19

What news does Bobo bring?

Answer 19

Willy Harris took off with their investment money and disappeared.

Question 20

How does Mama react when Walter confesses that he never went to the bank?

Answer 20

She starts to beat on his face.

Question 21

Why was Beneatha drawn to medicine?

Answer 21

She witnessed a neighbor boy get hurt badly and then fixed up by the doctors at the hospital.

Question 22

How do Beneatha’s and Asagai’s perspectives of life differ?

Answer 22

Bennie sees life limited by the bad things mankind does to one another. An endless cycle. Asagai sees life as possibilities in spite of what bad things there are. His is more of a straight line where the end is not in sight, but you keep moving forward.

Question 23

What was Walter’s new plan after he heard the news from Bobo?

Answer 23

Take Mr. Lindner’s offer to buy the house back in agreement with the other residents that the Youngers do not belong there.

Question 24

What does Mama tell Walter is wrong with his new plan?

Answer 24

They have never been that poor to accept the opinion that they were not fit to walk the earth. They were never that dead inside.

Question 25

When, according to Mama, is the time to love someone the most?

Answer 25

When they are at their lowest and the world had done whipped them so.

Question 26

In what ways does the plant represent the Younger family.

Answer 26

Been without a lot of sunlight ( experienced hard times)
Cramped inside a small container (apartment)
Will grow bigger and stronger when it gets to put down roots

Question 27

How does the family connect to the poem, Dream Deferred, individually?

Answer 27

Examples: (connections to play)

Walter- explodes like a volcano when his investment fails.

Beneatha- festering sore that Beneatha wants to cure

Mama- dried up with time passed like a raisin in the sun

Question 28

In what way does Walter deeply disappoint Mama and his wife Ruth?

Answer 28

He walks out of the apartment instead of trying to change Ruth’s mind and make things right between them when Ruth confirms she put a down payment on the abortion.