Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh Quiz

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

What did one critic mean when he wrote that Marlon Brando's acting was like jazz? (from The Heart Can't Wait)

Brando's acting was a mish-mash of various styles and approaches

Brando's acting was unpredictable.

Brando could speak a convincing black dialect.

Brando's stage performances were spontaneous, improvisational like jazz solos.

2.

How did Williams countermand the directions of Dr. Kubie? (from Beanstalk Country)

He continued to drink, use drugs and write.

Williams had contact with his family within a few weeks.

Williams refused to renounce his homosexuality.

Williams said he could not afford to be hospitalized for three months.

3.

What sort of behavior did Tennessee Williams exhibit that indicated he'd not taken Dr. Kubie's recommended steps back to sanity and reality? (from Waving and Drowning)

He refused to enter a psychiatric hospital because the patients were all deranged.

Williams abandoned his mother and brother in New York after his play, "The Milk Train doesn't Stop Here Any More" flopped.

Tennessee remained obsessively fixated on Frank Merlo after his death, which made it impossible for him to live in the present.

Williams continued his life at the same frantic pace, writing hits, then flops, drinking and using drugs and running from reality instead of facing it.

4.

What condition did Dr. Lawrence Kubie insist upon before he would psychoanalyze Tennessee Williams? (from Beanstalk Country)

Kubie wanted Williams to stop using drugs and alcohol before treatment.

That Williams would renounce his gay lifestyle.

That Williams be hospitalized for three months at the start of his treatment.

That Williams have no contact with his family for six months.

5.

What was Tennessee Williams' biggest fear about death? (from The Sudden Subway)

That he would have to account for his life.

That he would die in an institution like a hospital or nursing home.

That he would attempt suicide but fail.

That he would deplete his money before he died.

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