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A Streetcar Named Desire Quiz 1

By Elizabeth Weinbloom · Edited by Soman Chainani · Last reviewed August 11, 2008

1 Tennessee Williams first big success was

The Glass Menagerie

A Streetcar Named Desire

The Rose Tattoo

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
2 Williams hailed from

Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Mississippi and Missouri

Guyville, Tennessee

Alabama
3 Williams was greatly influenced by the mental problems of

his brother, Thom

his father, Stan

his sister, Rose

his mother, Blanche
4 Streetcar takes place in

Atlanta

Stratford-on-Guy

New Orleans

Laurel
5 The play is set in

the 1950s

the 1930s

the 1960s

the 1940s
6 The play's initial reception can only be described as

commercial and critical failure

commercial success and critical failure

commercial and critical success

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

autumn

winter

summer

spring
8 The play ends in what season?

winter

autumn

summer

spring
9 Blanche is Stella's

cousin

sister

mother

sister-in-law
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

impoverished Southern aristocracy

blue-collar

middle-class

nouveau riche
12 In the first scene, Stanley hollers at Stella and throws her a

football

package of bloody meat

baby

dozen roses
13 The upstairs neighbors of Stanley and Stella are

Eunice and Steve

Eunice and Mitch

Restus and Ellie

Mitch and his mother
14 After the loss of Belle Reve, Blanche lived in

Laurel

Atlanta

Corinth

New Orleans
15 The Dubois home was

a shack in Atlanta

a mansion called "Jamais Defonc

a mansion called "Belle Reve"

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

horseshoes

Risk

poker

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

drinking straight Tequila

taking long baths

playing poker

having sex with strangers
18 Stanley and Stella's relationship could best be described as

impassionate and cold

sexual and passionate

platonic and familiar

intellectual, almost academic
19 Mitch, Stanley's friend, is caring for

a dying mother

a dying father

a dying dog

a dying wife
20 Blanche's husband

ran off with another woman

committed suicide

was murdered

died of tuberculosis
21 Blanche learned that her husband was

a Baptist

homosexual

part Black

both a Baptist and homosexual
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

nurse

high school English teacher

prostitute

pharmacist
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

helping local blacks

engaging in amorous encounters with strangers

becoming involved in church activities

baking

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