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

Which excerpt most clearly suggests that George and Hazel are living in a dystopian society in the story "Harrison Bergeron"?A.And then, neutralizing gravity with love and pure will, they remained suspended in air inches below the ceiling, and they kissed each other for a long, long time.B.It was then that Diana Moon Glampers, the Handicapper General, came into the studio with a double-barreled ten-gauge shotgun.C.Harrison placed his big hands on the girl's tiny waist, letting her sense the weightlessness that would soon be hers.D.It was then that the Bergerons' television tube burned out.Hazel turned to comment about the blackout to George.

Read the following excerpt from the play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry:JOHNSON (This is a woman who decided long ago to be enthusiastic about EVERYTHING in life and she is inclined to wave her wrist vigorously at the height of her exclamatory comments.): Hello there, yourself! H'you this evening, Ruth?Which assumption about Johnson is most likely true based on the stage direction?A.She has a wrist tremor that acts up when she becomes stressed.B.She is an excitable person who is emotionally unstable.C.Her constant enthusiasm is a pretense that cannot be trusted.D.Her enthusiasm is used to mask her fear of public places.

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 is her own person and doesn't care about how she looks.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 and her brother Walter have a great deal in common.

What is the conflict between George and Beneatha that begins on page 96?

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