Quiz on "A Streetcar Named Desire"

When Blanche says, "You came to New Orleans to look out for yourself. I stayed at Belle Reve and tried to hold it all together," she is talking to _____

• Stanley

• Mitch

• Stella

• a young man

Which does NOT describe Stanley?

• Possessed of "animal magnetism"

• Drinks to repress bad memories

• Assertive over others

• Blunt to the point of being rude

With Mitch, Blanche is not seeking ____

• a sexual relationship

• a source of constant attention

• a way of recapturing her youth & innocence

• the "magic" of a romantic relationship

When she was younger, Blanche's ____

• husband turned out to be gay and killed himself

• best friend tried to kill her

• parents threw her out of Belle Reve

• stepfather raped her

Of all the ways Blanche deceives Mitch, she never tries to convince him that she is ____

• independent

• young

• old-fashioned

• refined

Which one is NOT correct: Blanche is ____ while Stanley is ____.

• not truthful . . . blunt

• generous . . . selfish

• sensitive . . . rough

• educated . . . uneducated

After her marriage ended in tragedy, Blanche ____

• tired to kill her best friend

• tried to kill her stepfather

• led a sexually promiscuous lifestyle

• hired a lawyer to sue her parents

Stanley reveals Blanche's secret past to Mitch for all of the following reasons EXCEPT ____

• He doesn't want his friend being with a woman like Blanche

• He dislikes Blanche personally

• It's a way to assert himself over her

• He is jealous of her relationship with the newspaper boy

According to Blanche, the opposite of desire is ____

• success

• death

• terror

• happiness

____ causes Blanche to go fully insane at the play's end.

• Stanley's beating of Stella

• Her loss of Belle Reve

• Stanley's rape of Blanche

• Her rejection by Mitch