ARITS Act Three Questions
ARITS Act Three Questions
1. When Asagai arrives at the apartment, how does his mood contract with Walter’s and Beneatha’s?
2. How has the loss of the money changed Beneatha’s optimism? What does she tell Asagai? What is
Asagai’s response?
3. How does Asagai define idealists and realists? Which group does he prefer to be associated with?
4. What alternative view of the future does Asagai offer to put Beneatha’s depression in perspective?
5. Asagai leaves and Walter comes into the living room. How does Beneatha attack Walter? What does
Walter do?
6. How has Mama’s physical appearance changed? Why does Mama put her plant back on the windowsill?
7. Who does Mama blame for the current situation, and how does she plan to deal with it?
8. Up until now, Ruth has been the practical one. How does she react to Mama’s new attitude?
9. When Walter arrives back home, what does he say he has done? What does he plan to do?
A Raisin in the Sun
Act Three Questions
Directions: answer the following questions using complete sentences:
10. Describe Walter’s new view of life as being divided between the “takers” and the “tooken.”
11. What does Mama mean when she tells Walter that if he takes Lindner’s money he will have nothing left
inside?
12. Beneatha says Walter is no brother of hers. What lesson does Mama have to remind Beneatha about?
13. When Lindner arrives, why does Mama insist that Travis stay in the room?
15. What is the importance of having Mama return to the empty apartment to grab her plant? That plant
represents