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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What can't Blanche understand that hinders her ability to make the call in #60?
(a) A dial phone
(b) The voice on the other line
(c) A phone book
(d) The process

2. Who is the one person that Blanches does not meet right away?
(a) Pablo
(b) Steve
(c) Harold
(d) Joe

3. What does Blanche ask Mitch to hang over a bare light bulb in the room?
(a) A shirt
(b) A scarf
(c) A newspaper
(d) A paper lantern

4. The legal papers that Stanley finds describe how the DuBois men exchanged the land for their epic ___________.
(a) Egoes
(b) Fornications
(c) Greed
(d) Debts

5. What have the men been eating during their poker game?
(a) Watermelon
(b) Apples
(c) Cucumbers
(d) Lemons

Short Answer Questions

1. Who threatens to call the police if her husband hits her?

2. What does Blanche do that annoys Stanley?

3. What does Stanley do that shows he is unrefined, but in his eyes, practical?

4. What does Blanche find to drink as she is waiting in Stella's apartment?

5. Blanche is worried about getting soft and old and not being able to ___________.

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to let Blanche and Stanley to be alone together?

2. Who lives at 632 Elysian Fields, as the play opens in "A Streetcar Named Desire"?

3. What does Stella reveal about Mitch and what does she think of him?

4. Why is Stanley taunting Blanche more at this point in the story?

5. What has Shaw revealed to Stanley about Blanche?

6. How does Mitch first make small talk with Blanche?

7. What is Blanche afraid of in terms of her relationship with Mitch?

8. What is happening between Eunice and Steve at the beginning of scene 5 that frightens Blanche?

9. What proof does Stanley find that makes him believe that Blanche may have spent an inheritance?

10. What shows that Stella is not upset about the previous night's events anymore?

(see the answer keys)

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