Q 01/05

In The Glass Menagerie, which of Laura Wingfield's figurines is her favorite, later damaged by Jim O'Connor?

A) The swan

B) The unicorn

C) The peacock

D) The giraffe

Answer · why

B) The unicorn

The unicorn stands for Laura herself: one of a kind, fragile and out of place among the ordinary horses. When Jim damages it, she says it will now fee...

Q 02/05

In The Glass Menagerie, what nickname did Jim O'Connor give Laura in high school after mishearing her illness?

A) Blue Roses

B) White Lilies

C) Wild Violets

D) Sweet Clover

Answer · why

A) Blue Roses

Blue Roses is what Jim heard when Laura said she had been out with pleurosis. The name fits her: a flower that does not exist in nature.

Q 03/05

In The Glass Menagerie, what product fills the warehouse where Tom Wingfield earns sixty-five dollars a month?

A) Cotton

B) Furniture

C) Shoes

D) Tobacco

Answer · why

C) Shoes

Shoes were Tennessee Williams's own drudgery too: his father put him to work at the International Shoe Company, a job he hated as much as Tom hates hi...

Q 04/05

In The Glass Menagerie, where does Tom Wingfield say he spends his nights, though Amanda suspects he is lying?

A) A pool hall

B) The city library

C) The riverfront docks

D) The movies

Answer · why

D) The movies

The movies are Tom's nightly refuge, his stand-in for the adventure his job never offers. Late in the play he says he is tired of watching other peopl...

Q 05/05

The Glass Menagerie is set in a cramped apartment facing an alley in which American city in the 1930s?

A) St. Louis

B) New Orleans

C) Memphis

D) Kansas City

Answer · why

A) St. Louis

St. Louis is where Tennessee Williams's own family settled when he was a boy, moving from home to home around the city, so the Wingfields' address was...