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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the play's name attributed to that character?

2. What does Brick refuse to do that frustrates Maggie?

3. What function does the setting also serve?

4. What is the location for the setting?

5. How many children do Brick and Maggie have?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Maggie's plan to make her lie become a truth?

2. How does Brick respond to Maggie's claims of loneliness?

3. Why does Maggie think Gooper thinks he is more socially advanced than the others?

4. What does Big Mama reveal about who will inherit the Pollitt land?

5. How has Maggie fulfilled her role as a cat on a hot tin roof?

6. How do Gooper and Mae justify their suitability for the inheritance?

7. Why must Maggie tell Brick everything that happened at the family's dinner that evening?

8. Where does Big Mama think Big Daddy is?

9. Why has the subject of the inheritance risen in importance?

10. How does Williams use the literary technique of flashback in this act?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why does Brick exhibit such indifference toward Maggie? Why does he want to hurt her when he knows that withholding affection is as debilitating as a physical wound to someone like Maggie?

Essay Topic 2

What position does Maggie take with the news of Big Daddy's terminal illness? Explain how she is both sentimental and realistic.

Essay Topic 3

Explain the taboo of homosexuality in the 1950s, especially as it related to popular athletes like Brick and Skipper.

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