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The Glass Menagerie Quiz 1

  • 1. The action of the play takes place in the
    •     1930's
    •     1950's
    •     1960's
    •     1890's

  • 2. The setting of the play is
    •     Chicago
    •     New York
    •     St. Louis
    •     New Orleans

  • 3. The narrator of the play is
    •     Tom
    •     Laura
    •     Amanda
    •     Jim

  • 4. Amanda is from
    •     Mexico
    •     England
    •     the South
    •     Canada

  • 5. Amanda's husband, Tom's and Laura's father is absent. He is gone because he
    •     died fighting in World War II
    •     is working overseas and sends home a check every month
    •     abandoned the family sixteen years before the action of the play
    •     died of polio when the children were young

  • 6. Tom works at
    •     a shoe warehouse
    •     a bakery
    •     a bank
    •     the docks

  • 7. Laura keeps a collection of tiny glass
    •     Christmas ornaments
    •     animals
    •     flowers
    •     cocktail stirrers

  • 8. In his first speech, Tom makes an allusion to a certain atrocity in Europe. That atrocity is mentioned several times by Tom throughout the play. What event does Tom refer to?
    •     Stalin's extermination of the Armenians
    •     the Holocaust
    •     the Rape of Nanking
    •     Guernica

  • 9. Tom frequently addresses the audience from a certain part of the set. This area is an important symbol for Tom and for the choice he faces. What area is it?
    •     the bedroom
    •     the chimney
    •     the fire escape
    •     Paradise Dance Hall

  • 10. Tom spends many of his nights at
    •     church
    •     the movies
    •     the warehouse
    •     opium dens

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