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Answer: Seven-thirty

The first line that Ruth speaks in the play is: "Come on now [Travis], it's seven-thirty!"

Answer: The Johnsons

In the beginning of the play, when Ruth tries to wake Walter up, she finally succeeds by saying, "All right, you just go ahead and lay there and next thing you know Travis be finished and Mr. Johnson'll be in there"

Answer: Fifty Cents

A fairly irrelevant yet interesting detail: Before Travis leaves for school, he tells Ruth that he needs fifty cents to give his teacher. Ruth tells them that they don't have fifty cents to give him, but Walter, more out of pride than anything else, gives him a whole dollar, half of which he encourages him to spend at his leisure.

Answer: Chauffeur

All that needs to be done to find the answer to this question is to hear Walter say In Act I, "I drive a man around in his limousine and I say "Yes, sir; no, sir; very good, sir; shall I take the Drive, sir?"

Answer: To open a liquor store

Walter is very excited that his father's insurance money is coming because he needs exactly that amount to open a liquor store with two of his friends.

Answer: Her husband died and left her money.

From discussion between the Youngers early in the play, the nature of the check is quickly revealed.

Answer: True

In Act I, Scene i, Ruth comes home in the middle of the scene. When referring to her doctor, she uses the word "she" unintentionally, leading us to discover that she went to a woman who specialized in abortions and gave her a five-dollar down payment. Later however, it appears as if she has changed her mind.

Answer: Nigeria

When Beneatha calls Joseph Asagai and invites him over, she tells Mama that he's from Nigeria. Mama asks if that wasn't the country founded by slaves, and Beneatha, with considerable exasperation, replies that no, that country is called Liberia.

Answer: Eight-Thirty

When George Murchison comes to pick Beneatha up, he can be caught telling Ruth that "It's an eight-thirty curtain".

Answer: Eggleston

Near the end of the play, Mama, remembering what people used to say to her, refers to herself as "Lena Eggleston".

Answer: It is unspecified

The amount of money offered to the Youngers is never specified, but all of the above choices are possible as we know that it is more than the Youngers paid for their house ($3,500).

Answer: Mrs. Johnson

While certain editions of the play may not even mention this woman, Mrs. Johnson is the Younger's next-door neighbor. She appears in one scene only, where she and Mama get into a subtle yet heated argument about black pride, and in which Mrs. Johnson professes thinly-veiled jealousy towards the Youngers.

Answer: Traditional White Prosperity

Near the end of the play, Karl Lindner knocks on the Younger's door, telling them he is from the "Clybourne Park Improvement Association". He sits down and talks with them for a while, trying to let down the Younger's guard. Eventually, he offers them money that has been raised by residents of Clybourne Park. They can earn this money, he says, simply by not moving to their neighborhood.

Answer: Christianity

From several different references, including a heated argument between Beneatha and Mama, we can infer that the Youngers are devout Christians.

Answer: She doesn't want him to see the house being cleaned.

Mama, as we know, is a very proud person, almost up to the point of excess. Naturally, when Beneatha invites him over while they are cleaning the house, she expresses displeasure.

Answer: 406 Clybourne Street, Clybourne Park

When Mama first tells the Youngers that she bought a house, she surpises them all by telling them the address.

Answer: A poem by Langston Hughes

Indeed, Langston Hughes' "A Dream Deferred" includes the words, "What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?"

Answer: 1959

The play was first produced in 1959, and became a great success.

Answer: Hope

After a careful study of the play, it becomes apparent that the sunlight symbolizes hope.

Answer: Mama

At the end of the play, Mama goes out with everyone else. But then she comes back in to retrieve her plant, and goes back out.