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In 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.

In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, upon whose eyes does Puck first apply the love potion?  

  Why did the short story first become a popular genre during the nineteenth century?  

Identify the speaker of the following quotation from A Midsummer Night’s Dream“: Lord, what fools these mortals be.”

Match each drama term to its description

Which of the following identifies the central theme of the poem “We Real Cool?”  

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.

In the poem “The Raven,” which of the following best describes the relationship between the speaker and Lenore?  

  What happens to Pyramus and Thisbe at the end of the play within the play that happens in Act V?  

A prevalent theme in A Raisin in the Sun involves gender expectations and how characters are either fulfilling those expectations—or, perhaps more often, failing to meet those expectations. For instance, Mama suggests that Walter should be the same kind of “man” as his father (1583), and at the conclusion of the play Mama proudly describes him as entering “into his manhood” at long last (1619). Which of the following statements best describes the form of masculinity that Mama values?