A Streetcar Named Desire Quizzes

A Streetcar Named Desire Quiz 1

1 Tennessee Williams first big success was
The Glass Menagerie

The Rose Tattoo

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

A Streetcar Named Desire
2 Williams hailed from
Alabama

Mississippi and Missouri

Guyville, Tennessee

Baton Rouge, Louisiana
3 Williams was greatly influenced by the mental problems of
his mother, Blanche

his father, Stan

his brother, Thom

his sister, Rose
4 Streetcar takes place in
Laurel

Atlanta

New Orleans

Stratford-on-Guy
5 The play is set in
the 1930s

the 1960s

the 1940s

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

commercial success and critical failure

commercial and critical failure

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

winter

autumn

summer
8 The play ends in what season?
spring

autumn

winter

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

cousin

sister

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

blue-collar

nouveau riche

impoverished Southern aristocracy
11 Stanley comes from a background that would best be described as
middle-class

nouveau riche

impoverished Southern aristocracy

blue-collar
12 In the first scene, Stanley hollers at Stella and throws her a
dozen roses

package of bloody meat

football

baby
13 The upstairs neighbors of Stanley and Stella are
Restus and Ellie

Eunice and Steve

Mitch and his mother

Eunice and Mitch
14 After the loss of Belle Reve, Blanche lived in
Corinth

Atlanta

New Orleans

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

a mansion called "Troezen"

a shack in Atlanta

a mansion called "Jamais Defonc
16 Stanley and his friends enjoy playing
bridge

horseshoes

Risk

poker
17 To calm her nerves, Blanche spends afternoons in New Orleans
drinking straight Tequila

taking long baths

having sex with strangers

playing poker
18 Stanley and Stella's relationship could best be described as
intellectual, almost academic

impassionate and cold

platonic and familiar

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
ran off with another woman

died of tuberculosis

committed suicide

was murdered
21 Blanche learned that her husband was
a Baptist

both a Baptist and homosexual

part Black

homosexual
22 Blanche is constantly disturbed by
music she hears in her head

visions of clowns

visions of Belle Reve in flames

giraffe noises she hears in her head
23 Blanche worked in Laurel as a
high school English teacher

nurse

pharmacist

prostitute
24 Blanche's spent years caring for
the dying older generation of the family

the lepers of the town

her sick sister

her dying husband
25 The last few years in her home town, Blanche fought her loneliness by
engaging in amorous encounters with strangers

becoming involved in church activities

helping local blacks

baking