A Streetcar Named Desire Quizzes

A Streetcar Named Desire Quiz 1

1 Tennessee Williams first big success was
The Rose Tattoo

A Streetcar Named Desire

The Glass Menagerie

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
2 Williams hailed from
Mississippi and Missouri

Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Alabama

Guyville, Tennessee
3 Williams was greatly influenced by the mental problems of
his mother, Blanche

his brother, Thom

his father, Stan

his sister, Rose
4 Streetcar takes place in
Laurel

New Orleans

Stratford-on-Guy

Atlanta
5 The play is set in
the 1940s

the 1960s

the 1930s

the 1950s
6 The play's initial reception can only be described as
commercial and critical failure

commercial success and critical failure

critical success and commercial failure

commercial and critical success
7 The play starts in what season?
autumn

winter

spring

summer
8 The play ends in what season?
autumn

summer

winter

spring
9 Blanche is Stella's
sister-in-law

sister

cousin

mother
10 Blanche and Stella hail from a background that would best be described as
blue-collar

nouveau riche

middle-class

impoverished Southern aristocracy
11 Stanley comes from a background that would best be described as
nouveau riche

blue-collar

middle-class

impoverished Southern aristocracy
12 In the first scene, Stanley hollers at Stella and throws her a
package of bloody meat

football

baby

dozen roses
13 The upstairs neighbors of Stanley and Stella are
Eunice and Steve

Eunice and Mitch

Mitch and his mother

Restus and Ellie
14 After the loss of Belle Reve, Blanche lived in
Laurel

New Orleans

Corinth

Atlanta
15 The Dubois home was
a mansion called "Belle Reve"

a mansion called "Jamais Defonc

a shack in Atlanta

a mansion called "Troezen"
16 Stanley and his friends enjoy playing
Risk

poker

horseshoes

bridge
17 To calm her nerves, Blanche spends afternoons in New Orleans
taking long baths

drinking straight Tequila

having sex with strangers

playing poker
18 Stanley and Stella's relationship could best be described as
platonic and familiar

impassionate and cold

intellectual, almost academic

sexual and passionate
19 Mitch, Stanley's friend, is caring for
a dying wife

a dying mother

a dying father

a dying dog
20 Blanche's husband
was murdered

committed suicide

ran off with another woman

died of tuberculosis
21 Blanche learned that her husband was
part Black

homosexual

both a Baptist and homosexual

a Baptist
22 Blanche is constantly disturbed by
visions of Belle Reve in flames

giraffe noises she hears in her head

visions of clowns

music she hears in her head
23 Blanche worked in Laurel as a
prostitute

pharmacist

nurse

high school English teacher
24 Blanche's spent years caring for
her dying husband

her sick sister

the dying older generation of the family

the lepers of the town
25 The last few years in her home town, Blanche fought her loneliness by
baking

engaging in amorous encounters with strangers

becoming involved in church activities

helping local blacks