| Term | Definition |
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| B | Where does Tom work? a) at a pharmacy b) at a shoe warehouse. c) at a flower shop. d) for the newspaper. |
| A | What does Tom like to write? a) Poetry. b) musical librettos. c) journalistic dispatches. d) bad checks. |
| D | Where does the play take place? a) cleveland. b) New York City. c) Mississippi. d) St. Louis. |
| B | At the beginning of the play, where is Laura supposedly attending classes? a) at a language college. b) at a business college. c) at a dance academy. d) at a high school. |
| A | The play is a "memory play". From which character's memory is it drawn? a) Tom's. b) Amanda's. c) Laura's. d) Mr. Wingfield's |
| B | For what does Amanda conduct a telephone campaign in order to make extra money? a) a local election. b) magazine subscriptions. c) a charity. d) temperance. |
| D | Amanda returns a library book that Tom has checked out. Who is the author of this book? a) Hart Crane. b) Frederick Nietzsche. c) Henrik Ibsen. d) D.H. Lawrence. |
| B | The action of the play is set to which era of American History. a) Reconstruction. b) The Great Depression. c) The Roaring Twenties. d) The Swell Fifties. |
| B | According to Tom, where does he spend most of his nights? a) a the smoky jazz joints. b) at the movies. c) at his best girl's house. d) at the offices of the Cleveland Plain Dealer |
| C | What is Amanda most concerned that Tom's friend, the gentleman caller, not be? a) Overly intelligent. b) Canadian c) A drunk. d) Tubercular |
| A | In what is Jim taking night courses in? a) radio engineering and public speaking. b) home economics and desktop publishing. c) business administration and product developement. d) sufi asceticism and prue land buddhism. |
| D | For whom did Tom's father work for? a) a canned goods business. b) the department of the interior. c) a glue manufacturer. d) the telephone company. |
| B | What do the Wingfields have instead of a porch? a) a marble balcony. b) a fire-escape landing. c) the neighbor's roof. d) cable tv. |
| D | What is Laura's favorite animal among her glass figurines? a) a fawn. b) a leopard. c) a dinosaur. d) a unicorn. |
| D | What is Jim's nickname for Tom? a) marlow. b) johnson. c) webster. d) shakespeare. |
| B | What class did Jim and Laura have together in high school? a) wood shop. b) chorus. c) spanish III. d) metal shop. |
| A | Of what origin is Jim's family? a) Irish. b) african-american. c) spanish. d) russian. |
| C | Why did Jim call Laura "Blue Roses"? a) because she wore blue roses in her hair. b) because it was the title of a popular song. c) becuase it sounds like "pleurosis". d) because he called all girls that. |
| D | How does Tom plunge the family into darkness? a) by not paying the water bill. b) by not paying the gas bill. c) by not paying the phone bill. d) by not paying the light bill. |
| B | For what does Tom pay membership sues with the money earmarked for the abovemetioned bill? a) the union of industrial shipping clerks and stockmen. b) the union of merchant seamen. c) the united brotherhood of railcar apartment. d) the society of poets and writers. |
| D | What is across the alley from the Wingfield's apartment? a) a church. b) a speakeasy. c) a library. d) a dance hall. |
| B | Why will Jim not call again on the Wingfields? a) he is too shy. b) he is engaged. c) he is leaving town. d) he is put off by laura. |
| A | What, according to Tom, is man by instinct? a) a lover, a hunter, a fighter. b) a dancer, a singer, a cook. c) a sprinter, a builder, an achiever. d) a poet, a martyr, a soothsayer. |
| B | What does Amanda make Tom promise that he will never be? a) a lawyer. b) a drunkard. c) an oboist. d) a money lender. |
| B | How did Tennessee Williams refer to the 1960's? a) as his "everlasting summer of love". b) as his "stoned age". c) as "the winter of my discontent". d) as "the age of revolution through theatre". |
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