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