LYNN NOTTAGE: Crumbs from the Table of Joy Remember to support your ideas with details from the text.

1. (a)Read this passage, and then answer the question that follows it: Ermina: Well, could we at least go up to the Levys' to listen the radio? They says so. We'd appreciate this moment all the more. [ERNESTINE perks up with anticipation.] Godfrey: They's being polite ... Running up there to them white peoples every time you get a chance, they're gonna think you don't got a proper home. 5 Ermina: They old! ... They don't think nothing. Godfrey: Oh you God now, you knows what they think! Ermina: Nah, sir! [Wrinkles her nose] Ernestine [To audience]: Mr Levy gives us a quarter on the Sabbath to turn on the lights, the stove and of course his smacking-new television. 10 Ermina: It's practically the size of a car. For real. Godfrey: They white people, don't know any better than to spend their money on foolishness. Ernestine [To audience]: There you have it! 'They white' – with those two words he can dismiss our wants, our desires, even our simplest pleasures. 'They white.' 15 [ERMINA sits down and mopes, her leg shaking furiously.] It doesn't matter that his Father Divine has gone off and married himself a 'spotless white virgin,' who remains untarnished despite marital vows. Oh yes! There'll always be that great divide between us and them. Divine was God, and God was liable do as he pleased, but you see Daddy was just a poor colored man 20 Godfrey and Ernestine: [GODFREY looks up from his newspaper.] ... from Pensacola, and I gone out my way to keep trouble a few arms' lengths 'way. I don' want to wind up like them Scottsboro boys, but you wouldn't remember. 25 Godfrey: [GODFREY continues to speak; ERNESTINE mouths the words:] Terrible mess, terrible mess. [GODFREY takes out a little notepad and takes notes. He then returns to reading with his magnifying glass. ERNESTINE runs her hands across the chair as if she could feel the memory coming to life. GODFREY becomes choked up; he tries to restrain his sobs, but is unable to do so.] 30 Ernestine [To audience]: Brooklyn ... Evenings; listening to Daddy weep, missing Mommy and staring at the radio. A Radiola Mommy won, she guessed the number of marbles in a jar: seven hundred and two. Daddy will win playing that number some years from now. Only number he will ever play. 35 [She and ERMINA stare at the radio longingly. Laughter fills the stage.] Can hear Mrs Levy upstairs in her rocking chair shifting back and forth from laughter. Can hear the television in the Friedlanders' apartment. We sit and listen to all the white laughter. Seems to us only white folks can laugh on Sunday. 40 [Laughter fills the stage. The three stare out into space. Silence.] Godfrey: I almost forgot, [Singsong] something in my pocket for my babies. [ERMINA and ERNESTINE rush over to GODFREY's worn overcoat hanging over the chair. ERNESTINE pulls out a handful of cookies.] 45 Ernestine [To audience]: Again, he's bought us off with cookies and shortcake. [Savoring the words] Love is candied peanuts and sugar babies, day-old cinnamon buns and peach cobbler. Godfrey: Well, maybe when I find me a ‘better' job we'll, we'll, take a walk maybe, and maybe look at some television sets. I do want the best for my babies. 50 Ernestine [To audience]: Something better is always on the horizon. [ERNESTINE stuffs her mouth with sugar cookies, gobbling them down obsessively.] [from Prologue] How does Nottage vividly convey the unhappiness of the Crump family at this moment in the play?[25]
2. (b)To what extent does Nottage's portrayal persuade you to admire Lily?[25]