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
Guyville, Tennessee

Alabama

Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Mississippi and Missouri
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
New Orleans

Laurel

Atlanta

Stratford-on-Guy
5 The play is set in
the 1940s

the 1930s

the 1950s

the 1960s
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

spring

summer

winter
8 The play ends in what season?
spring

winter

summer

autumn
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
impoverished Southern aristocracy

middle-class

blue-collar

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

nouveau riche

blue-collar

middle-class
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
Restus and Ellie

Eunice and Mitch

Eunice and Steve

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

Atlanta

Corinth

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

a shack in Atlanta

a mansion called "Jamais Defonc

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

Risk

bridge

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

drinking straight Tequila

playing poker

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

intellectual, almost academic

impassionate and cold

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

a dying mother

a dying dog

a dying father
20 Blanche's husband
died of tuberculosis

ran off with another woman

was murdered

committed suicide
21 Blanche learned that her husband was
homosexual

a Baptist

part Black

both a Baptist and homosexual
22 Blanche is constantly disturbed by
visions of clowns

giraffe noises she hears in her head

music she hears in her head

visions of Belle Reve in flames
23 Blanche worked in Laurel as a
prostitute

high school English teacher

nurse

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

her sick sister

the lepers of the town

her dying husband
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