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A Streetcar Named Desire Quiz - Scene Three to Ten
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1.
SCENE 3: What are the men doing at the start of the scene?
Playing poker
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Playing badminton
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2.
Where does the game take place?
At the kitchen table
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In the bedroom
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3.
Mitch is worried about what?
The presence of women
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Leaving his sick mother at home
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4.
What is Blanche doing in anticipation of male company?
Hiding
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Powdering her face
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5.
Where does Stanley tell Blanche and Stella to go?
To a movie
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Up to Eunice's
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6.
Blanche feels that Mitch is...
Superior to the rest
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Bulky
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7.
What does Mitch have on his cigarette case?
A freemasonry insignia
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A Elizabeth Barrett Browning poem
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8.
Blanche asks Mitch to do what?
Put a paper lantern over the naked lightbulb
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Tell her she is pretty
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9.
What does Stanley do to the household radio?
Throws it out of the window
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Dances to it
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10.
After Stanley strikes his wife, what do the men do to sober him up?
Throw him in the warm bath
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Throw him in a cold shower
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11.
Who does Stella stay with that night?
Stanley
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Eunice
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12.
Williams describes them as embracing with...
Animal moans
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Tortoise yawns
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SCENE 4: Stella comments that her physical relationship with Stanley...
"makes it easy to forgive him."
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"makes everything else seem - unimportant."
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14.
What does Stanley overhear Blanche calling him?
A common, apelike, primitive brute
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Cold and boring
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15.
SCENE 5: Which dubious love interest is Blanche writing to in this scene?
Mitch
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Shep Huntleigh
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16.
Who does Stanley say has given him information on Blanche?
Joe
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Shaw
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17.
What seedy hotel has Blanche apparently been at recently?
The Tarantula
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The Flamingo
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18.
Blanche has not yet slept with Mitch because she wants...
To meet his mother first
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His respect first
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19.
SCENE SIX: What does Blanche do to rather than telling Mitch her age?
Tells a traumatic story
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Tells him to not be rude
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20.
Why did her husband take his own life?
He was an alcoholic
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She outed him as a homosexual
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21.
What polka was playing when her deceased husband took his own life?
Varsouviana
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Blue piano
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22.
SCENE SEVEN: Where is Blanche singing for a large portion of this scene?
In the kitchen
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In the bath
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23.
Why is Blanche always bathing?
To 'cleanse' herself of her past life
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New Orleans is oppressively hot
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24.
What is Stanley's birthday present to Blanche?
A one-way tram ticket home
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A one-way bus ticket home
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25.
SCENE 8: Why is Blanche disappointed in this scene?
Stella is shabbily dressed for her birthday
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Mitch stands her up
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26.
What is Stanley sick of being called?
A Pole
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A Polack
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27.
Stanley shouts that he is 100%...
Man
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American
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28.
What non-diegetic sound punctuates this scene?
The music in Blanche's mind
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Blanche's inner thoughts
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29.
SCENE NINE: Which character does Blanche accuse of making up stories about her for rejecting him?
Kiefaber
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Kaiser
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30.
Mitch claims he has never seen Blanche...
At dinnertime
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In the light
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31.
Mitch is upset at Blanche because she has pretended to be...
Moral
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Pretty
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32.
What does a Mexican woman come around the corner trying to sell?
Flowers for the dead
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Tamales
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33.
What violent act does Mitch commit in this scene?
Forces himself onto her
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Slaps Blanche
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34.
SCENE TEN: What does Blanche do after looking at herself in the hand mirror?
Draws a face in it
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Smashes it
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35.
Stanley begins doing what in front of Blanche?
Undressing and clearing up the glass
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Undressing and pouring beer foam on his head
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36.
Blanche claims that although she has little money she is still...
Intelligent, cultured and spirited
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Young, free and single
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37.
What can't Blanche ever forgive?
A rude remark
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Deliberate cruelty
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38.
As Stanley approaches her, who does Blanche try to call for help?
Stella
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Shep Huntleigh
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39.
The sound of the blue piano turns into what?
Stanley's voice
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The sound of a passing train
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40.
What does Stanley do to Blanche?
Sexually assaults her
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Throws her out
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41.
OTHER: What was Streetcar's original title?
Blanche and Stanley
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The Poker Night
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42.
Who said "Streetcar is a conflict between different species?"
Tennessee Williams
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Eric Bentley
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43.
Who said "Blanche is Tennessee Williams"
Elis Kazan
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Elia Kazan
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44.
Who said "Paper is the key force in Williams's use of foreshadowing"?
Ruby Kohn
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Philip Kolin
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45.
Who said "Stanley has trained Stella to catch his meat in every way"?
Philip Kolin
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Ruby Kohn
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46.
The view that the play is a battle between the psychic drives of Eros and Thanatos is what kind of reading?
Jungian
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Freudian
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47.
The view that Stanley sees Blanche as a threat because of his wounded masculinity or 'negative anima' is what kind of reading?
Freudian
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Jungian
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48.
What does Dubois mean?
Of the woods
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Of the trees
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Jenny from the block
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