Statistics for A Streetcar Named Desire Quiz - Scene Three to Ten

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Question	Answer	% Correct
SCENE 3: What are the men doing at the start of the scene?	Playing poker	100%
What does Stanley do to the household radio?	Throws it out of the window	96%
Williams describes them as embracing with...	Animal moans	94%
Where does the game take place?	At the kitchen table	94%
After Stanley strikes his wife, what do the men do to sober him up?	Throw him in a cold shower	92%
What does Stanley overhear Blanche calling him?	A common, apelike, primitive brute	88%
Blanche asks Mitch to do what?	Put a paper lantern over the naked lightbulb	88%
Blanche feels that Mitch is...	Superior to the rest	86%
What is Blanche doing in anticipation of male company?	Powdering her face	84%
What is Stanley sick of being called?	A Polack	82%
SCENE SEVEN: Where is Blanche singing for a large portion of this scene?	In the bath	82%
Mitch is worried about what?	Leaving his sick mother at home	82%
Mitch claims he has never seen Blanche...	In the light	80%
What does Stanley do to Blanche?	Sexually assaults her	80%
What non-diegetic sound punctuates this scene?	The music in Blanche's mind	80%
SCENE 8: Why is Blanche disappointed in this scene?	Mitch stands her up	78%
Why did her husband take his own life?	She outed him as a homosexual	78%
What violent act does Mitch commit in this scene?	Forces himself onto her	76%
Blanche claims that although she has little money she is still...	Intelligent, cultured and spirited	76%
Who does Stanley say has given him information on Blanche?	Shaw	76%
SCENE 5: Which dubious love interest is Blanche writing to in this scene?	Shep Huntleigh	76%
SCENE TEN: What does Blanche do after looking at herself in the hand mirror?	Smashes it	76%
Why is Blanche always bathing?	To 'cleanse' herself of her past life	76%
What does a Mexican woman come around the corner trying to sell?	Flowers for the dead	74%
What seedy hotel has Blanche apparently been at recently?	The Flamingo	74%
What does Mitch have on his cigarette case?	A Elizabeth Barrett Browning poem	72%
Stanley shouts that he is 100%...	American	72%
What can't Blanche ever forgive?	Deliberate cruelty	72%
SCENE 4: Stella comments that her physical relationship with Stanley...	"makes everything else seem - unimportant."	72%
Mitch is upset at Blanche because she has pretended to be...	Moral	72%
OTHER: What was Streetcar's original title?	The Poker Night	72%
Where does Stanley tell Blanche and Stella to go?	Up to Eunice's	72%
Blanche has not yet slept with Mitch because she wants...	His respect first	70%
What polka was playing when her deceased husband took his own life?	Varsouviana	70%
The sound of the blue piano turns into what?	The sound of a passing train	68%
What does Dubois mean?	Of the woods	66%
SCENE SIX: What does Blanche do to rather than telling Mitch her age?	Tells a traumatic story	66%
What is Stanley's birthday present to Blanche?	A one-way bus ticket home	64%
Who does Stella stay with that night?	Stanley	62%
SCENE NINE: Which character does Blanche accuse of making up stories about her for rejecting him?	Kiefaber	58%
Who said "Blanche is Tennessee Williams"	Elia Kazan	54%
The view that the play is a battle between the psychic drives of Eros and Thanatos is what kind of reading?	Freudian	52%
The view that Stanley sees Blanche as a threat because of his wounded masculinity or 'negative anima' is what kind of reading?	Jungian	50%
Who said "Paper is the key force in Williams's use of foreshadowing"?	Philip Kolin	48%
Who said "Stanley has trained Stella to catch his meat in every way"?	Ruby Kohn	48%
As Stanley approaches her, who does Blanche try to call for help?	Shep Huntleigh	48%
Stanley begins doing what in front of Blanche?	Undressing and pouring beer foam on his head	48%
Who said "Streetcar is a conflict between different species?"	Eric Bentley	44%