The Glass Menagerie Unit 7 Unit Test Review

Amanda pretends that Laura has made the dinner when Jim visits so that __________.

• Amanda can pretend that Laura is a good cook

• Jim will know how shy Amanda is.

• Laura looks like she would make a good wife.

Amanda's refusal to let Tom call Laura "crippled" is an example of Amanda's __________.

• inability to face reality

• determination to be sensible

• alienation from her husband

Which character does the glass unicorn symbolize in the play?

• Amanda

• Laura

• Tom

What is the overall tone of The Glass Menagerie?

• fury

• passion

• desperation

The playwright uses the screens, lighting, and music of the play to create a sense of __________.

• tension

• unreality

• danger

How does the playwright use the narrator in the play?

• to comment on the events of the play

• to explain the meaning of the play

• to divert the audience from the action

he stage directions often require light to fall on Laura when she is not part of a conversation to __________.

• foreshadow what will happen to her

• keep the focus of the play on her

• distract viewers from the characters who are speaking

When the play begins, Tom is dressed in a merchant sailor uniform, foreshadowing _______.

.

• his desertion from his role as head of the family

• the attempt to find a gentleman caller for his sister

• his desire to be a Merchant Marine in the play

What theme is expressed by Tom's actions in the following lines:

TOM: I'm starting to boil inside. I know I seem dreamy, but inside - well, I'm boiling ! - Whenever I pick up a shoe, I shudder a little thinking how short life is and what I am doing! - Whatever that means, I know it doesn't mean shoes - except as something to wear on a traveler's feet ! [Finds paper.] Look!

JIM: What?

TOM: I'm a member.

JIM [reading]: The Union of Merchant Seamen.

TOM: I paid my dues this month, instead of the light bill.

JIM: You will regret it when they turn the lights off.

• Reality

  vs.

  Illusion and Escape

• Abandonment vs

   Duty

• Alienation

   vs Connection

Which theme is expressed by Amanda's actions in the following lines? 

TOM: Mother, you mustn't expect too much of Laura.

AMANDA: What do you mean?

TOM: Laura seems all those things to you and me because she's ours and we love her. We don't even notice she's crippled any more.

AMANDA: Don't say crippled ! You know that I never allow that word to be used !

TOM: But face facts, Mother. She is and - that's not all

AMANDA: What do you mean "not all'?

TOM: Laura is very different from other girls

AMANDA: I think the difference is all to her advantage.

TOM: Not quite all - in the eyes of others - strangers - she's terribly shy and lives in a world of her own and those things make her seem a little peculiar to people outside the house.

AMANDA: Don't say peculiar.

TOM: Face the facts. She is.

AMANDA: In what way is she peculiar - may I ask?

TOM [gently]: She lives in a world of her own - a world of little glass ornaments, Mother. . . . [Gets Up. AMANDA remains holding brush, looking at him, troubled.] She plays old phonograph records and - that's about all.

• Reality

  vs

  Illusion and Escape

• Abandonment

  vs

  Duty

• Alienation

  vs

  Connection