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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 does Stella ask Stanley to do for Blanche?
(a) Take her out
(b) Buy her more liquor
(c) Compliment her
(d) Let her use their phone

2. Who is the author of the quote on Mitch's cigarette case?
(a) John Browning
(b) Elizabeth Barrett Browning
(c) Shakespeare
(d) Edgar Allen Poe

3. Where are Stella and Blanche planning to go together?
(a) Atlanta
(b) A club down the road
(c) A local bar
(d) French Quarter

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

5. To what does Blanche compare her sister's desire?
(a) A candle
(b) A streetcar
(c) A runaway horse
(d) A train

Short Answer Questions

1. When do Blanche and Stella arrive home?

2. What does Blanche do in order to prepare for her night out with Stella?

3. What does Mitch offer to Blanche?

4. What does Stanley lecture Stella on as he tries to determine what happened to Belle Reve?

5. Who offers Blanche a shoulder to cry on after the events of the evening?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Stella describe her relationship with Stanley?

2. What happens when Stella decides to go watch Stanley bowl?

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

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

5. What solution to the argument between Eunice and Steve does Stella find more practical?

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

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

8. What happens after Stanley throws the radio out of the window?

9. What does Blanche do when she finds a bottle of whiskey in Stella's apartment?

10. What has happened to Belle Reve, according to Blanche and to the papers she shows Stanley from her trunk?

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