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Read the passage below to answer the question that follows. ASAGAI:     (Still teasing and reaching out and taking her face in his hands and turning her profile to him) Well…it is true that this is not so much the profile of a Hollywood queen as perhaps a queen of the Nile—(A mock dismissal of the importance of the question) But what does it matter? Assimilationism is so popular in your country. BENEATHA: (Wheeling, passionately, sharply) I am not an assimilationist! What does Beneatha mean when she denies being an assimilationist?

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Read the passage below to answer the question that follows. RUTH:            You know what I’m going to do soon as I get in that new house? BENEATHA:  What? RUTH:            Honey—I’m going to run me a tub of water up to here…(With her fingers practically up to her nostrils) And I’m going to get in it—and I am going to sit…and sit…and sit in that hot water and the first person who knocks to tell me to hurry up and come out What is the mood around the Younger’s house as Act II, Scene 3 begins and Ruth and Beneatha are packing up in preparation for the move?