The Glass Menagerie Study Guide

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 fire escape
• Paradise Dance Hall
• the chimney

10. Tom spends many of his nights at

• church
• the movies
• the warehouse
• opium dens