<p> A Raisin in the Sun by______(Act 2, scene 3)</p><p>Vocabulary – Use a dictionary to define the following terms; be sure to use the appropriate definition: exuberant (110) – affirmation (117) –</p><p> facetiousness (120) – ludicrous (124) – forlornly (129) –</p><p>Characters – Define each character in terms of who he/she is in the play AND his/her personality.</p><p>Mr. LInder –</p><p>-</p><p>Bobo –</p><p>-</p><p>Reading Questions</p><p>1. What is the setting of the scene? 2. Why do you suppose Ruth feels “no ways tired” today? (110)</p><p>3. In what way(s) has Walter changed?</p><p>What do you think caused the changes?</p><p>4. Why would the family be surprised to see a white man at their door? (113)</p><p>5. Who is Mr. Linder? What is his job/responsibility with Clybourne Park? (115)</p><p>6. Which character catches on to Mr. Linder’s true intentions first? (115)</p><p>Why do you think this is the case?</p><p>7. What is the irony in Mr. Linder’s words: “-most of the trouble exists because people just don’t sit down and talk to each other…to understand the other fellow’s problem. The other guy’s point of view”? (116)</p><p>8. What is the irony in Mr. Linder’s words: “They’re not rich and fancy people; just hard- working, honest people who don’t really have much but those little homes and a dream of a kind of community they want to raise their children in”? (117)</p><p>9. Explain Beneatha’s comment, “This, friends, is the Welcoming Committee!” (page 118)</p><p>10. In what way to Ruth, Walter, and Beneatha break the news about Mr. Linder to Mama? (120)</p><p>What is Mama’s reaction? (120-121)</p><p>11. What does Ruth think is the white people’s true problem with coexisting with black neighbors? (121)</p><p>Do you think this still stands true today? Why or why not?</p><p>12. Beneatha says that Mr. Linder thinks “everybody ought to learn how to sit down and hate each other with good Christian fellowship.” Do you think her statement is accurate? </p><p>Explain your answer.</p><p>13. On page 121, Mama says, “Fixing my plant so it won’t get hurt none…” How can this line be taken to possess a second meaning?</p><p>14. What does Mama’s card mean by “To our own Mrs. Miniver”?</p><p>15. Who arrives at the Youngers’ apartment at the end of the scene? (125)</p><p>Why? (126-128) 16. What other catastrophic news does Walter give the family concerning the money? (129)</p><p>17. To whom is Mama referring when she says, “I seen him grow thin and old before he was forty…working and working and working like somebody else’s horse…killing himself”?</p><p>What is her point in making this reference?</p>