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A Raisin in the Sun
English
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The protagonist of the play, a dreamer. He wants to be rich and devises plans to acquire wealth with his friends, particularly Willy Harris. When the play opens, he wants to invest his father's insurance money in a new liquor store venture. | Walter Lee Younger |
| Mama's daughter and Walter's sister, an intellectual. She dreams of being a doctor and struggles to determine her identity as a well-educated black woman. | Beneatha Younger "Bennie" |
| Walter and Beneatha's mother. The matriarch of the family, is religious, moral, and maternal. She wants to use her husband's insurance money as a down payment on a house with a backyard to fulfill her dream for her family to move up in the world. | Lena Younger "Mama" |
| Walter's wife and Travis's mother. Takes care of the Youngers' small apartment. Her marriage to Walter has problems, but she hopes to rekindle their love. Constantly fighting poverty and domestic troubles, she continues to be an emotionally strong woman. | Ruth Younger |
| Walter and Ruth's sheltered young son. He earns some money by carrying grocery bags and likes to play outside with other neighborhood children, but he has no bedroom and sleeps on the living-room sofa. | Travis Younger |
| A Nigerian student in love with Beneatha. He is very proud of his African heritage. He eventually proposes marriage to Beneatha and hopes she will return to Nigeria with him. | Joseph Asagai |
| A wealthy, African-American man who courts Beneatha. The Youngers approve of him, but Beneatha dislikes his willingness to submit to white culture and forget his African heritage. | George Murchison |
| The only white character in the play. He arrives at the Youngers' apartment from the Clybourne Park Improvement Association. He offers the Youngers a deal to reconsider moving into his (all-white) neighborhood. | Mr. Lindner |
| One of Walter's partners in the liquor store plan. He appears to be as mentally slow as his name indicates. | Bobo |
| A friend of Walter and coordinator of the liquor store plan. He never appears onstage, which helps keep the focus of the story on the dynamics of the Younger family. | Willy Harris |
| The Youngers' neighbor. She takes advantage of the Youngers' hospitality and warns them about moving into a predominately white neighborhood. | Mrs. Johnson |
| A character is presented as thinking out loud or speaking to himself | Soliloquy |
| A charcter turns away from the person to who he is speaking on stage and speaks directly to the audience | Aside |
| Those who experience the performance of a drama | Audience |
| Written stage directions and dialogue that create the action of the play | Script |
| As in fiction, this determines the time and place where the action takes place. IN drama, however, this is completely visual and is usually left up to the discretion of the director | Setting |
| What happens in a play; the order of events, the story as opposed to the theme; what happens rather than what it means | Plot |
| The personality or the part an actor represents in a play; a role played by an actor in a play | Character |
| What the play means as opposed to what happens; the main idea explored in the play | Theme |
| The word choices made by the playwright and the enunciation of the actors delivering the lines | Dialogue |
| sound, rhythm, and melody of speeches | Music/rhythm |
| The visual elements of the production of a play; the scenery, costumes, and special effects in a production | Spectacle |
| When and where was Langston Hughes born? | February 1, 1902 Joplin, Missouri |
| Langston Hughes was raised by his ______________ until he was thirteen, when he moved to ___________, Illinois to live with his mother and her husband, before the family settled in ____________, Ohio | grandmother Lincoln Cleveland |
| Langston Hughes spent a year in Mexico and and a year in ___________ University | Columbia |
| Langston Hughes held jobs such as: | Assistant cook, launderer, busboy, and travelled to Africa and Europe as a seaman |
| What was Hughe's first book of poetry? | The Weary Blues |
| What was Langston Hugh's first novel called? | Not Without Laughter |
| Langston Hughes had an engagement in Jazz, as in what song? | "montage of a Dream Differed" |
| Hughes refused to differentiate between his personal experience and the common experience of _______ _________ | Black America |
| Langston Hughes died of complications of prostate cancer in: Where: | May 22, 1976 in New York |
| Hughes wrote how many plays? | 11 |
| List some of Langston Hughes' works | "Simple" Works"Simple Speaks his Mind""Simple Stakes a Claim""Simple Takes a Wife""Simple's Uncle Sam""The Poetry of the Negro" |
| Lorrain Hansberry was born when and where? | My 19, 1930, in Chicago Illinois. |
| In 1938, the Hansberrys moved where? | To a white neighborhood, where attacks were made on the family |
| After graduating from high school in 1948, Lorrain Hansberry is said to have been studying at the University of ________, the ____ Institute of Chicago, The New School of ________ ___________ in New York, in ___________, Mexico, and also went to _________ | ChicagoArtSocial ResearchGuadalajaraUniversity of Wisconsin |
| Hansberry was influenced to write a Raisin in the Sun after watching what play? | Paycock |
| In 1952 Lorrain Hansberry attended the __________________________________________________________________ | Intercontinental Peace Congress in Montevideo, Uruguay |
| IN 1952, Lorrain Hansberry married _______ _________, who was a graduate student in history and English at New York University and participated in the political events of the time. | Robert Nemiroff |
| A Raisin in the Sun was finished in _____ and opened on _________________ at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. | 1957 March 11, 1959 |
| Later it was turned into a Broadway Musical named Raisin | Fact |
| A Raisin in the Sun was directed by | Lloyd Richards |
| Who starred in a Raisin in the Sun? | Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, and Claudia McNeil |
| Hansberry's next play after Raisin was thrown out pretty quickly because it turned against whites and gays | fact |
| Hansberry did other works such as | Parody of Waiting for Godot Laughing Boy Les Blancs parody of Jean Genet's "The Blacks" Wrote script on movie about slavery called the Drinking Gourd |
| Hansberry hopped out of her hospital bed said to the winners of the Negro College Fund: | "To be young, gifted, and black" |
| Lorrain Hansberry died of cancer on | January 12, 1965 |
| King was the leader of the ____________ Bus Boycott | Montgomery |
| In ______ King was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in the Civil Rights Movement | 1964 |
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