The setting of the play is in St. Louis during

Question 1 options:

The Civil Rights Era

The Great Depression

The Revolutionary War Era

The Harlem Renaissance

Question 2 (2 points)
Through the use of innovative techniques in play-writing, Tennessee Williams was able to produce this type of play:

Question 2 options:

A Tragedy

A Comedy

A Memory Play

A Musical

Question 3 (2 points)
Which of the following innovative techniques did Williams incorporate into The Glass Menagerie ?

Question 3 options:

Projection Screens

Music

Lighting

A Narrator

Question 4 (2 points)
Tennessee Williams incorporated these techniques into his play in order to

Question 4 options:

To create an atmosphere of danger

To increase the feeling of hopelessness

To paint a picture of beauty

To depict a sense of unreality

Question 5 (2 points)
The glass unicorn is delicate, fanciful, and unique, and is used as a symbol for this character:

Question 5 options:

Amanda

Tom

Jim

Laura

Question 6 (2 points)
Amanda's husband is gone because he

Question 6 options:

abandoned the family sixteen years before the action of the play.

died fighting in World War II.

is working overseas and sends home a check every month.

died of polio when the children were young.

Question 7 (2 points)
In the first scene, Amanda tells the story of a Sunday afternoon in Blue Mountain when she received seventeen

Question 7 options:

blue roses

standing ovations

gentleman callers

letters of recommendation

Question 8 (2 points)
How is Laura physically handicapped?

Question 8 options:

She has a lame leg.

She has a lame arm.

She has a nerve condition.

She has anemia.

Question 9 (2 points)
Because Laura's nerves cannot handle class, Amanda becomes all the more determined to

Question 9 options:

win the lottery

find Laura a husband

contact Laura's father for support and guidance

make Tom work extra shifts

Question 10 (2 points)
Laura stopped going to class because

Question 10 options:

Amanda could not afford the tuition.

the college closed.

the classes terrified her, to the point of making her physically ill

her teacher said that she had no talent in the business field.

Question 11 (2 points)
Tom frequently addresses the audience from a certain part of the set. This area is an important symbol for Tom and for the choice he faces. What area is it?

Question 11 options:

The Chimney

The Paradise Dance Hall

The Fire Escape

The Shoe Warehouse

Question 12 (2 points)
Tom spends many of his nights at

Question 12 options:

the warehouse

the movies

opium-dens

church

Question 13 (2 points)
Amanda, realizing that it will take money to make the apartment presentable for a gentleman caller, takes a second job

Question 13 options:

at the shoe warehouse

at a restaurant

at the business college

roping in subscribers for The Homemaker's Companion

Question 14 (2 points)
Tom's feelings toward his sister Laura can be described as .

Question 14 options:

delusional

affectionate

annoyed

unconcerned

Question 15 (2 points)
Tom's major predicament is one of the themes of the play. This theme could best be described as

Question 15 options:

the battle between the sexes

the conflict between Christian faith and science

the conflict between responsibility for one's family and the need to live one's own life

the conflict between apathy and motivation

Question 16 (2 points)
In scene 4, when Laura leaves to go get butter

Question 16 options:

she stumbles on the fire escape, her fall symbolizing her inability to cope with the world outside the tiny apartment

she is accosted by a mugger, the attack symbolizing her vulnerability to predatory men

she forgets the way home, indicating that she is experiencing the first symptoms of insanity

she has a horrible nervous breakdown, showing how incapable she is of coping with other people

Question 17 (2 points)
Amanda senses that Tom wants to leave home. She tells him he can do it as soon as

Question 17 options:

Amanda starts her own business .

they buy a home.

they have found a husband for Laura.

Tom retires from the show company

Question 18 (2 points)
Amanda believes that Tom's craze for adventure can be found

Question 18 options:

in Tom's books

at the movies

in his career

through travel

Question 19 (2 points)
At the end of scene 4, Amanda pleads with Tom to

Question 19 options:

join the Merchant Marines to help better support the family.

find a suitable co-worker to become Laura's "gentleman caller."

stop reading D. H. Lawrence's novels.

write a letter to his father explaining their predicament.

Question 20 (2 points)
The theme of Reality vs. Illusion/Escape can attach itself to all of the following events except:

Question 20 options:

Tom's incessant need to go to the movies.

Laura's reoccurring nightmares about her typing instructor.

The memories Amanda shares about her seventeen "gentleman callers."

Laura's focus on her collection of glass animals and worn out records.