Which phrases from the passages best support the theme that racism can be subtle? Select three options.
Read the passage from A Raisin in the Sun.[LINDNER:] But you've got to admit that a man, right or wrong, has the right to want to have the neighborhood he lives in a certain kind of way. And at the moment the overwhelming majority of our people out there feel that people get along better, take more of a common interest in the life of the community, when they share a common background.
Which connotations are associated with the word representative as it is used in this passage? Select two options.
Read the passage from A Raisin in the Sun.BENEATHA (with a grand and bitter gesture): This, friends, is the Welcoming Committee!WALTER (dumfounded, looking at LINDNER): Is this what you came marching all the way over here to tell us?LINDNER: Well, now we've been having a fine conversation. I hope you'll hear me all the way through—WALTER (tightly): Go ahead, man.
Read the passage from A Raisin in the Sun.MAMA (sensing their facetiousness): What's the matter with you all?WALTER: Ain't nothing the matter with us. We just telling you 'bout the gentleman who came to see you this afternoon. From the Clybourne Park Improvement Association.MAMA: What he want?RUTH (in the same mood as BENEATHA and WALTER): To welcome you, honey.WALTER: He said they can't hardly wait. He said the one thing they don't have, that they just dying to have out there is a fine family of fine colored people! (To RUTH and BENEATHA.) Ain't that right!RUTH (mockingly): Yeah! He left his card—BENEATHA (handing card to MAMA): In case.MAMA reads and throws it on the floor—understanding and looking off as she draws her chair up to the table on which she has put her plant and some sticks and some cord.MAMA: Father, give us strength. (Knowingly—and without fun.) Did he threaten us? BENEATHA: Oh—Mama—they don't do it like that anymore. He talked Brotherhood. He said everybody ought to learn how to sit down and hate each other with good Christian fellowship.
Which connotations are associated with the phrase "worked up”? Select three options.
What is the theme of a text?
What is the definition of tone?
Read the passage from A Raisin in the Sun.BENEATHA (laughingly noticing what her mother is doing): Mama, what are you doing?MAMA: Fixing my plant so it won't get hurt none on the way . . .BENEATHA: Mama, you going to take that to the new house? MAMA: Un-huh—BENEATHA: That raggedy-looking old thing?MAMA (stopping and looking at her): It expresses ME!RUTH (with delight, to BENEATHA): So there, Miss Thing!
Read the two passages from A Raisin in the Sun.Passage 1:MAN (coming in): Thank you.BENEATHA: My mother isn't here just now. Is it business?MAN: Yes . . . well, of a sort.WALTER (freely, the Man of the House): Have a seat. I'm Mrs. Younger's son. I look after most of her business matters.RUTH and BENEATHA exchange amused glances.Passage 2: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 . . . MAMA (not wanting to believe him): You mean . . . your sister's school money . . . you used that too . . . Walter? . . .WALTER: Yessss! All of it . . . It's all gone . . .There is total silence. RUTH stands with her face covered with her hands; BENEATHA leans forlornly against a wall, fingering a piece of red ribbon from the mother's gift. MAMA stops and looks at her son without recognition and then, quite without thinking about it, starts to beat him senselessly in the face. BENEATHA goes to them and stops it. BENEATHA: Mama!MAMA stops and looks at both of her children and rises slowly and wanders vaguely, aimlessly away from them.
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