While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: Lorraine Hansberry wrote the play, A Raisin in the Sun, in 1957, which appeared on Broadway in 1959.Because A Raisin in the Sun consisted of a mostly black cast and dealt with racial issues, it was considered a risky investment at the time.The producer of the play, Philip Rose, had difficulty securing funding and took 18 months to raise money for the play.The play received mixed reviews from audiences when it opened for preview.On opening night, A Raisin in the Sun received a standing ovation and, later, earned great critical acclaim including four Tony nominations. The student wants to explain the challenges A Raisin in the Sun faced in production. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?Despite initially being considered a risky investment for the time, A Raisin in the Sun earned great critical acclaim including four Tony nominations.eliminateA Raisin in the Sun initially had trouble securing funding, due to being considered a risky investment, and received mixed reviews after preview performances.eliminateAfter taking 18 months to secure funding, A Raisin in the Sun previewed on Broadway to mixed reviews.eliminateLorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun, which appeared on Broadway in 1959, consisted of a mostly black cast and explored themes about race.

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 By looking through Hansberry’s unpublished writing and diaries, Perry uncovers that the author advocated for Marxist politics and decolonization.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

Think about the plot diagram for the play A Raisin in the Sun. What is the specific setting of the play?Group of answer choicesSometime during the civil rights movement, in an apartment in the suburbs of ChicagoSometime between World War II and the present, in an apartment on Chicago’s SouthsideSometime during the Harlem Renaissance, in the middle of New York CitySometime during the 1950s, in an apartment on New York City’s west side

What does the plant symbolize in the final stage directions of A Raisin in the Sun below?(RUTH hesitates, then exits. MAMA stands, at last alone in the living room, her plant on the table before her as the lights start to come down. She looks around at all the walls and ceilings and suddenly, despite herself, while the children call below, a great heaving thing rises in her and she puts her fist to her mouth to stifle it, takes a final desperate look, pulls her coat about her, pats her hat and goes out. The lights dim down. The door opens and she comes back in, grabs her plant, and goes out for the last time.)Group of answer choiceshope for the futurenever leaving anyone behindthe importance of familystruggle in the future

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

The sun wakes up,orange embers on the horizon.Light strikes the buildings like flame.The city yawns, stretches, awakes.And like a spark catching, I, too,start the day.A)Use the passage to answer the question.Draw a conclusion about the author’spurpose for the use of figurative language inthe last line.( 1 point)The figurative language gives the sunhuman characteristics like the speakerin the poem.The figurative language compares aspark to the speaker’s appearance.The figurative language unites thesunrise, the waking city, and thespeaker in one moment in time.The figurative language connects thecity to the images of light in the poem.