A Streetcar Named Desire Quizzes

A Streetcar Named Desire Quiz 1

1 Tennessee Williams first big success was
A Streetcar Named Desire

The Glass Menagerie

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

The Rose Tattoo
2 Williams hailed from
Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Alabama

Mississippi and Missouri

Guyville, Tennessee
3 Williams was greatly influenced by the mental problems of
his brother, Thom

his mother, Blanche

his father, Stan

his sister, Rose
4 Streetcar takes place in
Atlanta

New Orleans

Stratford-on-Guy

Laurel
5 The play is set in
the 1950s

the 1940s

the 1960s

the 1930s
6 The play's initial reception can only be described as
critical success and commercial failure

commercial and critical failure

commercial and critical success

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

winter

spring

summer
8 The play ends in what season?
autumn

winter

spring

summer
9 Blanche is Stella's
sister

sister-in-law

mother

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

nouveau riche

blue-collar

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

blue-collar

impoverished Southern aristocracy

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

dozen roses

package of bloody meat

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

Eunice and Steve

Eunice and Mitch

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

New Orleans

Laurel

Corinth
15 The Dubois home was
a mansion called "Troezen"

a shack in Atlanta

a mansion called "Belle Reve"

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

bridge

poker

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

playing poker

taking long baths

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

impassionate and cold

sexual and passionate

platonic and familiar
19 Mitch, Stanley's friend, is caring for
a dying wife

a dying mother

a dying dog

a dying father
20 Blanche's husband
committed suicide

ran off with another woman

died of tuberculosis

was murdered
21 Blanche learned that her husband was
part Black

both a Baptist and homosexual

a Baptist

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

music she hears in her head

visions of clowns

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
her dying husband

the dying older generation of the family

her sick sister

the lepers of the town
25 The last few years in her home town, Blanche fought her loneliness by
engaging in amorous encounters with strangers

helping local blacks

becoming involved in church activities

baking

First of all let me start by saying that "A Streetcar Named Desire" is one of the best plays I have ever read. The themes of independence and security are very much present in the play. Blanche as we see is seeks ernestly for security...

Asked by courtenay w #6120

Answered by meeckel b #6169 7 days ago 3/26/2025 3:03 PM