The Glass Menagerie Quizzes

The Glass Menagerie Quiz 1

By Eddie Borey · Edited by Elizabeth Weinbloom · Last reviewed September 15, 2008

1 The action of the play takes place in the

1930's

1950's

1960's

1890's
2 The setting of the play is

St. Louis

Chicago

New Orleans

New York
3 The narrator of the play is

Jim

Laura

Tom

Amanda
4 Amanda is from

England

Mexico

the South

Canada
5 Amanda's husband, Tom's and Laura's father is absent. He is gone because he

is working overseas and sends home a check every month

died fighting in World War II

died of polio when the children were young

abandoned the family sixteen years before the action of the play
6 Tom works at

the docks

a shoe warehouse

a bakery

a bank
7 Laura keeps a collection of tiny glass

animals

flowers

Christmas ornaments

cocktail stirrers
8 In his first speech, Tom makes an allusion to a certain atrocity in Europe. That atrocity is mentioned several times by Tom throughout the play. What event does Tom refer to?

Stalin's extermination of the Armenians

Guernica

the Rape of Nanking

the Holocaust
9 Tom frequently addresses the audience from a certain part of the set. This area is an important symbol for Tom and for the choice he faces. What area is it?

the fire escape

the bedroom

the chimney

Paradise Dance Hall
10 Tom spends many of his nights at

opium dens

the warehouse

the movies

church
11 In the first scene, Amanda tells the story of a Sunday afternoon in Blue Mountain when she received seventeen

gentleman callers

bouquets of flowers

letters of recommendation

Jehovah's Witnesses
12 How is Laura physically handicapped?

She has a lame arm.

She has a lame leg.

She is autistic.

She is blind.
13 Amanda enrolled Laura at

Missouri State

Goldsmith's School of Fine Arts

Rubicam's Business College

Radcliffe College
14 Laura stopped going to class because

one of the teachers sexually harassed her

she was ethically opposed to capitalism

the classes terrified her, to the point of making her physically ill

she saw how work had embittered Tom
15 Because Laura's nerves cannot handle class, Amanda becomes all the more determined to

win the lottery

open her own business

find a husband for Laura

find Laura's long-lost father
16 Instead of going to class, Laura spent her days

wandering in the park and in museums

hiding with Tom at the warehouse

with an old friend of hers from high school

working as a prostitute
17 Amanda, realizing that it will take money to make the apartment presentable for a gentleman caller, takes a second job

roping in subscribers for The Homemaker's Companion

at a restaurant

at the shoe warehouse

at the local hospital
18 Back when she was in high school, Laura had a crush on a boy named Jim. He used to call her

Li'l Amanda

Blue Roses

Miss Wingfield

Glass Menagerie Girl
19 Amanda never allows Laura or Tom to describe Laura's condition using the word

lame

retarded

unusual

crippled
20 Amanda confiscates Tom's books and returns them to the library. These books included a novel that Amanda thought was objectionable, a novel by

William Faulkner

James Joyce

Virginia Woolf

D.H. Lawrence
21 Tom goes to a magician. The magician's most impressive trick was

making himself disappear

turning water into whiskey

escaping from a coffin without removing a single nail

pulling a glass animal out of a hat
22 The magician's most impressive trick symbolizes

the truth about the Wingfield father's motives

Tom's hopeless wish that he could escape without doing anyone any harm

Laura's fragility

Tom's alcoholism
23 When Laura leaves to go get butter

she is accosted by a mugger, the attack symbolizing her vulnerability to predatory men

she has a horrible nervous breakdown, showing how incapable she is of coping with other people

she forgets the way home, indicating that she is experiencing the first symptoms of insanity

she stumbles on the fire escape, her fall symbolizing her inability to cope with the world outside the tiny apartment
24 As he takes his morning coffee, Tom apologizes to his mother. He refuses to eat any of the food she offers, possibly because

he is on a diet

he is still angry with her and wants to send her a message

he fears the food is poisoned

he is hung over
25 Amanda senses that Tom wants to leave home. She tells him he can do it as soon as

they have saved up two thousand dollars

they have found a husband for Laura

Amanda has started her business

both they have found a husband for Laura and they have saved up two thousand dollars

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