Read this excerpt from Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun:His sister BENEATHA enters. She is about twenty, as slim and intense as her brother. She is not as pretty as her sister-in-law, but her lean, almost intellectual face has a handsomeness of its own. She wears a bright-red flannel nightie, and her thick hair stands wildly about her head.Based on the character description, what can the reader infer about Beneatha?A.She and her brother Walter have a great deal in common.B.She is envious that her sister-in-law is prettier than she is.C.She thinks she is intellectually superior to her family.D.She is her own person and doesn't care about how she looks.SUBMITarrow_backPREVIOUS

What character traits are evident in Walter in Act II of A Raisin in the Sun when we find out what Walter did in this interaction:MAMA: (To WALTER) Son (She goes to him, bends down to him, talks to his bent head) Son... Is it gone? Son, I gave you sixty-five hundred dollars. Is it gone? All of it? Beneatha's money too? WALTER: (Lifting his head slowly) Mama…I never...went to the bank at all...Group of answer choicesLeadership & imaginationDignitySelfishness & carelessnessMoody & insensitive

Read the following excerpt from the play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry:BENEATHA Yes—and I love to talk.GEORGE (Exasperated; rising) I know it and I don't mind it sometimes . . . I want you to cut it out, see—The moody stuff, I mean. . . . As for myself, I want a nice—(Groping)—simple (Thoughtfully)—sophisticated girl . . . not a poet — O.K.? (He starts to kiss her, she rebuffs him again and he jumps up)Which assumption about George is most likely true based on the stage direction?A.He is patient and thoughtful as he tries to tell Beneatha what he thinks of her poetry.B.He is more worried that Beneatha might be unsophisticated than about anything else.C.He has difficulty expressing his feelings and doesn't know how to say he loves Beneatha.D.He expects women to appear sophisticated but not to express sophisticated opinions.SUBMITarrow_backPREVIOUS

In this excerpt from Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, read what takes place just after Walter has refused to take Lindner's money:MAMA. (Into action) Ain't it the truth! Look at all this here mess. Ruth, put Travis' good jacket on him . . . Walter Lee, fix your tie and tuck your shirt in, you look like somebody's hoodlum! Lord have mercy, where is my plant? (She flies to get it amid the general bustling of the family, who are deliberately trying to ignore the nobility of the past moment)Which statement most accurately describes the aesthetic impact of this excerpt?A.By showing Mama nurturing the plant, the author echoes her nurturing role from the beginning of the play, leaving the reader satisfied.B.By showing Mama giving orders to her family, the author reinforces how mean and cruel she is.C.By understating the family's reaction to Walter's refusal to take Lindner's money, the author leaves the reader feeling disappointed.D.By describing Walter Lee's refusal to take Lindner's money as noble, the author gives him the respect he lacks at the beginning of the play.

In this excerpt from Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, read what takes place just after Walter has refused to take Lindner's money:MAMA. (Into action) Ain't it the truth! Look at all this here mess. Ruth, put Travis' good jacket on him . . . Walter Lee, fix your tie and tuck your shirt in, you look like somebody's hoodlum! Lord have mercy, where is my plant? (She flies to get it amid the general bustling of the family, who are deliberately trying to ignore the nobility of the past moment)Which statement most accurately describes the aesthetic impact of this excerpt?

Playwright Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965) is best known for writing A Raisin in the Sun, a play about a Black family that faces housing segregation. Hansberry died tragically at age thirty-four, and her reputation still rests on her most famous play. However, the new biography Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry by Imani Perry explores the writer’s revolutionary politics. By looking through Hansberry’s unpublished writing and diaries, Perry uncovers that the author advocated for Marxist politics and decolonization. Even when her health was declining, Hansberry hoped to join the civil rights protests in the South. Which choice best states the main purpose of the text?To showcase Imani Perry’s research methods in working on Hansberry’s biographyeliminateTo enumerate the factors that led to Lorraine Hansberry’s deatheliminateTo emphasize the role of politics in Lorraine Hansberry’s art and lifeeliminateTo explain the basic tenets of Marxism