The title of Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun is an allusion to Langston Hughes’s poem “Harlem” in which the poem’s speaker poses the question of whether a “dream deferred dr[ies] up / Like a raisin in the sun” (lines 1–2). The poem is also the epigraph of the play. Which of the following statements is a detail from the play that demonstrates how Hansberry’s characters exemplify this idea of a “dream deferred?”

  In “The Things They Carried,” what does Jimmy Cross do the morning after Lavender’s death?  

  What is the setting of a story?  

  How does the story “The Yellow Wallpaper” end?  

Throughout A Raisin in the Sun, Mama tends to her plant. Which of the following examples is NOT a way that her plant might serve as a symbol for the Younger family?

In Lorraine Hansberry’s play A Raisin in the Sun, the characters Walter Lee and Mama decide to sell their new house back to the Clybourne community for a profit.

Match each of the following characters from Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun to their corresponding preferences for how to spend the life insurance check from Big Walter’s death

Consider the following claim about A Raisin in the Sun: In some ways, George and Asagai represent two competing understandings of life in the United States. George favors assimilation into a White culture; Asagai celebrates his African heritage in defiant rejection of a White culture that often denigrates Black experience. Which of the following is NOT a detail from the play that supports this claim?

  In “A Jury of Her Peers,” which of the following are two ways the crime scene has been altered by the end of the story?  

There are two main types of characterization: direct characterization and indirect characterization. Which of the following quotations from Guy De Maupassant’s short story “The Jewelry” best exemplifies direct characterization?