A Streetcar Named Desire Test Review

The merchant in laurel

Kiefaber

Stella's childhood home

Belle Reve

"A great big place with white columns"

Belle Reve

The neighborhood bar

The Four Deuces

A former teacher of English

Blanche DuBois

Cannot stand a naked light bulb

Blanche DuBois

a Virgo

Blanche DuBois

Blanche's young husband

Allan Gray

Committed suicide

Allan Gray

A poet

Allan Gray

The sleazy hotel from which Blanche is evicted

The Flamingo

The high school superintendent

Mr. Graves

The polka that plays in Blanche's head and always ends with the sound of a gunshot

Varsouviana

Husband to Eunice

Steve Hubbell

A poker player

Steve Hubbell

The upstairs neighbor

Eunice Hubbell

Married to Steve

Eunice Hubbell

Sister to Blanche

Stella Kowalski

Wife to Stanley

Stella Kowalski

Pregnant

Stella Kowalski

Does not believe Blanche's story about Stanley attacking her

Stella Kowalski

Blanche find him "superior" to the other men

Mitch

Checks up on Stanley's stories about Blanche

Mitch

Ashamed of perspiring

Mitch

Lives with his mother

Mitch

Polish

Stanley Kowalski

Husband to Stella

Stanley Kowalski

Once smashed all of the lightbulbs with the heel of Stella's slipper

Stanley Kowalski

A former beau to Blanche

Shep Huntleigh

She wore his pin in college

Shep Huntleigh

He comes from Dallas

Shep Huntleigh

Tennessee Williams was greatly influenced by what?

The mental problems of his sister Rose

Where does the play take place?

New Orleans

The play is set in the

1940's

When does the play start and when does it end?

Starts in the spring and ends in the fall

What best describes the neighborhood?

Diverse, noisy, and working class

What is Stanley carrying as he enters?

A package of raw meat

From what background do Stella and Blanche hail?

Impoverished southern aristocracy

Why did Blanche lose her job?

She had an affair with a teenaged boy

What phobia does Blanche have?

Being seen in direct light

What does Stella ask Stanley to not do?

Mention her prefnancy

What does Stanley do to Stella one night when he gets drunk?

He strikes her

Why is Blanche shocked?

Because Stella says with Stanley even though he hits her

How does Blanche defend her?

By living in a world of illusions

Who is fragile and self-deceiving?

Blanche

Who hopes Mitch will marry her?

Blanche

When she is with Mitch, what does Blanche always insist?

That she is devoted to very old-fashioned ideas about sex

Where does Blanche first meet Mitch?

At a poker party in the Kowalski flat

Who gave Mitch what?

A very strange, sweet girl gave him a silver cigarette case

What does "Blanche" mean?

White

What does "DuBois" mean?

Woods

What does Blanche tell Mitch about Stella?

That she is her older sister

What does Blanche threaten to do?

To burn love letters and poems after Stanley touches them

Where is Stella when Blanche first arrives at Elysian Fields?

At the bowling alley watching Stanley bowl

Where does Stanley see Eunice after she fights with Steve?

The Four Deuces

What do Mitch and Stanley have in common?

They bowl on the same team, they served in the army together, and they play poker together

What does Stella like to do to Blanche and why?

She likes to serve her because it makes her feel at gome

What does Blanche sing while taking a bath?

Paper Moon

What does Stanley overhear?

Blanche calling him primitive, ape like, and common

What is one of the most important themes in the play?

The destruction of the old southern aristoxraxy

What has Blanche always depended on?

The kindness of strangers

Why does Stanley shout "STELLAH!!"

He wants her to come home

What does Blanche ask Mitch to do when they first meet?

To cover the lightbulb with a paper lantern

Why did Blanche and Stella's ancestors lose Belle Reve?

Because of their "epic fornications"

What is the name of the Kowalski's apartment?

Elysian Fields

What is Blanche's nickname for Stella?

"Stella for Star"

Where was Stella when the DuBois family was dying?

In New Orleans with Stanley

Where did Blanche get most of her jewelry and furs?

Old admirers

What happened to Belle Reve?

Mortgaged and mostly sold off

Where are the papers regarding the loss of Belle Reve stored?

In Blanche's trunk

What does Blanche take to Elysian Fields Desire and Cemetaries?

Two streetcars

Who does Blanche kiss?

the young collector

Why is Mitch concerned about his mother?

She is dying

Why is Mitch's mother concerned of him?

She is afraid that he will be lonely when she is gone

What does Stanley throw through a window?

a radio

What does Blanche not know?

Shep Huntleigh's phone number and address

What is Stella doing at the opening of Scene Seven?

Preparing a birthday celebration for Blanche

Why did Blanche leave the Flamingo Hotel?

She was asked to leave

What does Stanley give Blanche for her birthday?

a bus ticket

What is Blanche wearing at the beginning of Scene Ten?

a crumpled white satin evening gown

What joke does Blanche Tell?

about a parrot who curses a blue streak

With what does Blanche try to defend herself from Stanley?

a broken bottle

What are the men doing at the end of the play?

Playing seven-card stud.