A Doll’s House, Part 3: Theme and Society — Unit test Answers

Read the passage from A Raisin in the Sun.MAMA: Lord have mercy, baby. You done gone and bought your grandmother a hat?TRAVIS (very proud): Open it!She does and lifts out an elaborate, but very elaborate, wide gardening hat, and all the adults break up at the sight of it.RUTH: Travis, honey, what is that?TRAVIS (who thinks it is beautiful and appropriate): It's a gardening hat! Like the ladies always have on in the magazines when they work in their gardens.BENEATHA (giggling fiercely): Travis—we were trying to make Mama Mrs. Miniver—not Scarlett O'Hara!MAMA (indignantly): What's the matter with you all! This here is a beautiful hat! (Absurdly.) I always wanted me one just like it!She pops it on her head to prove it to her grandson, and the hat is ludicrous and considerably oversized.RUTH: Hot dog! Go, Mama!WALTER (doubled over with laughter): I'm sorry, Mama—but you look like you ready to go out and chop you some cotton sure enough!They all laugh except Mama, out of deference to Travis’s feelings.MAMA (gathering the boy up to her): Bless your heart—this is the prettiest hat I ever owned—

Read the passage from A Raisin in the Sun.RUTH: Why don't you answer the door, man WALTER (suddenly bounding across the floor to embrace her): 'Cause sometimes it hard to let the future begin! (Stooping down in her face.I got wings! You got wings! All God's children got wings!He crosses to the door and throws it open. Standing there is a very slight little man in a not-too-prosperous business suit and with haunted frightened eyes and a hat pulled down tightly, brim up, around his forehead. TRAVIS passes between the men and exits. WALTER leans deep in the man's face, still in his jubilance.When I get to heaven gonna put on my wings, Gonna fly all over God's heaven . . .The little man just stares at him.Heaven—Suddenly he stops and looks past the little man into the empty hallway.Where's Willy, man?BOBO: He ain't with me.

Read the passage from A Raisin in the Sun.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.MAMA: I seen . . . him . . . night after night . . . come in . . . and look at that rug . . . and then look at me . . . the red showing in his eyes . . . the veins moving in his head . . . I seen him grow thin and old before he was forty . . . working and working and working like somebody's old horse . . . killing himself . . . and you—you give it all away in a day— (She raises her arms to strike him again.) BENEATHA: Mama—MAMA: Oh, God . . . (She looks up to Him.) Look down here—and show me the strength.

Which quotations from the texts best support the theme that the way to deal with racism is to stand up to it? Select three options.