A Raisin in The Sun Jeopardy

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A Raisin in The SunJeopardy

• Periods 1

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Directions

• Students will be placed on 1 of 3 teams.
• Starting with the first team, a category and a
  number of points will be chosen.
• The question will be seen and read aloud.
• Whichever claps first and answers the question
  correctly receives those points.
• The team who answers the question correctly also
  chooses the next category and amount.
• The game continues on this way until all boxes
  have been chosen or the bell rings.

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Scoring

• Each team will accumulate points as they answer
  questions correctly.
• You WILL loose points for questions answered
  incorrectly.
• Good Luck!

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JEOPARDY GAME BOARD
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QUESTION What terms means an authors message to
the audience?
ANSWER Theme.
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QUESTION What is the definition for symbol?
ANSWER Something that represents something else.
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QUESTION What is the setting of the story?
ANSWER Youngers apartment Southside,Chicago. 19
50s.
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QUESTION What does sunshine symbolize?
ANSWER Everything that makes dreams grow.
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QUESTION Name one theme from the play.
ANSWER Dreams- Humans will go to great lengths
to achieve a dream. Human struggle- Brings about
change.
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QUESTION What is an example of the conflict
character v. society in the play?
ANSWER The Youngers v. The Welcoming Committee
(oppression)
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QUESTION Who calls George an assimilationist?
ANSWER Beneatha.
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QUESTION She is compared to the KKK because she
tries to keep people down.
ANSWER Mrs. Johnson
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QUESTION This person wants to be a bus driver.
ANSWER Travis.
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QUESTION He talks about change and how life is
like a line?
ANSWER Joseph Asagai.
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QUESTION Beneatha calls Mama this when she is
slapped for expressing her disbelief in God.
ANSWER A tyrant.
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QUESTION Who is the author of the play?
ANSWER Lorraine Hansberry.
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QUESTION What is it called when a dream is put
off for a long time?
ANSWER A dream deferred.
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QUESTION Whose dreams are deferred at the end of
the play?
ANSWER Walter, Beneatha, and Mama.
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QUESTION What is the name of the poem that
inspired the author?
ANSWER Montage of a Dream Deferred.
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QUESTION Who wrote this poem?
ANSWER Langston Hughes.
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QUESTION Name one other thing that a dream
deferred is compared to in this play beside a
raisin in the sun?
ANSWER A sore, rotten meat, syrupy sweet, heavy
load.
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QUESTION How does this poem relate to our story?
ANSWER Our characters all have their dreams
deferred.
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• QUESTION
• What does entrepreneur mean?
• Devoted friend
• Business owner
• School teacher

ANSWER b. Business owner
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• QUESTION
• Which word means disrespect?
• Indictment
• Mutilated
• Flippancy

ANSWER C. Flippancy
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QUESTION What does replenish mean?
ANSWER To restore.
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• QUESTION
• Graft means to payoff?
• True
• False

ANSWER True.
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QUESTION What does ludicrous mean?
ANSWER laughable.
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QUESTION What is Walter Lees occupation?
ANSWER He is a chauffer.
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QUESTION Why does Walter dislike George
Murchinson?
ANSWER He is jealous of Georges wealth.
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QUESTION How does Walter finally become a man at
the end?
ANSWER He turns down the money offered by Linder.
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QUESTION Why does Ruth consider having an
abortion?
ANSWER She is willing to make great sacrifices
for her family.
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QUESTION When does Ruth realize that Walter had
not been going to work?
ANSWER After talking to his boss wife on the
phone.
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QUESTION Why does Mama finally give Walter the
money?
ANSWER She feels guilty about contributing to
his despair.
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QUESTION BONUS QUESTION Explain one important
way Walter changed throughout the novel.