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This quiz has been taken 39 times
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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Which game reflects the power struggle between characters and genders?	Poker	82%
By contrast, which is Blanche's utility of choice, reflecting Romantic idealism?	Bath	65%
Which insect does Williams compare Blanche to in the stage directions?	Moth	65%
Which bathroom utlility -- when used cold -- represents Stanley's harsh view of reality?	Shower	65%
Which musical motif represents Blanche's mental collapse and troubled past?	Varsouviana	65%
AO3 STARTS HERE: What is another term for a '19th century southern woman of intellectual and social distinction'?	Southern Belle	59%
What concept describes the ability of every American to aspire to riches and success?	The American Dream	59%
What hominid does Blanche compare Stanley to?	Ape	53%
Who said “My plays are about the negative impact that conventional society has upon the sensitive nonconformist individual.”?	Tennessee Williams	47%
AO2 STARTS HERE: One of the apartment walls in Streetcar sometimes becomes...	Transparent	41%
Within a marriage, what was still legal in 1947?	Rape	35%
What lifechanging operation did she have against her will?	Lobotomy	29%
Which painter produced idealised images of the American family? These are indactive of the conformity and idealism of the time.	Norman Rockwell	29%
Which side of the American civil war does Blanche sympathise with?	Confederacy	24%
The idea that Blanche is always a victim of patriarchal forces is what kind of interpretation?	Feminist	24%
What is the term for idealised American imagery?	Americana	18%
AO5 STARTS HERE: Who said "Streetcar is a conflict between different species"?	Eric Bentley	18%
The idea that the play is a battle between the drives of Eros (creativity) and Thanatos (destruction) is what kind of interpretation?	Freudian	18%
What common material is the main dramatic force in Streetcar according to Philip Kolin?	Paper	18%
What was the name of his sister?	Rose	18%
Who states that the hard consonants of Stanley are meant to contrast with the smooth open vowels of Blanche?	Ruby Cohn	18%
Which fellow playwright described Stanley as a 'sexual terrorist'?	Arthur Miller	12%
What was the name of Williams's macho father?	Cornelius	12%
What was the name of his submissive mother?	Edwina	12%
Which genius filmmaker said that "Tennessee Williams IS Blanche"?	Elia Kazan	12%
The idea that Stanley's behaviour is down to his 'wounded masculinity' is what kind of interpretation?	Jungian	12%
Which snake-eating-itself may show the structure of the plot? Williams may have been inspired by his writing teacher Robert Ramsay.	Ouroboros	12%
Which actress described the play as '4 scenes of comedy, 2 of elegy, 5 of tragedy'	Roxana Stuart	12%
What does Kazan do with the walls do in the original film production?	Close in	6%
Which word describes sound with no clear sound source?	Non-Diegetic	6%
Who states that Stanley has 'trained his wife to catch his meat, in every way.'	Ruby Cohn	6%
Who said "Stanley and Blanche are locked in a deadly sex battle"?	Foster Kirsch	0%
Who said "Much of the verbal and theatrical imagery is borne out by games"? (In essence, that Streetcar is one elaborate game.)	Leonard Quirino	0%
Who said that the conflict between Blanche and Stanley is an allegory for the struggle between the masculine and feminine in the mid 20th century south?	Robert Brustein	0%