The glass menagerie

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The glass menagerie
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Quiz by cecooper16, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by cecooper16 over 9 years ago
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Question 1

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

Question 2

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

Question 3

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

Question 4

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Amanda is from
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  • Mexico
  • The south
  • England
  • Canada

Question 5

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The father is gone because he
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  • Is working overseas
  • Abandoned the family
  • Died fighting in World War II
  • Died of polio when the children were young

Question 6

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Tom works at
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  • A shoe warehouse
  • The docks
  • A bank
  • A bakery

Question 7

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Laura keeps a collection of tiny glass
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  • Christmas ornaments
  • Cocktails stirrers
  • Flowers
  • Animals

Question 8

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What part of the set does Tom frequently address the audience from?
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  • The fire escape
  • The bedroom
  • The chimney
  • Paradise Dance Hall

Question 9

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Tom spends many of his nights at
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  • Opium dens
  • The movies
  • Church
  • The warehouse

Question 10

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In the first scene, Amanda tells the story of a Sunday afternoon in Blue Mountain when she received seventeen
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  • Bouquets of flowers
  • Letters of recommendation
  • Gentlemen callers
  • Jehovah's witnesses

Question 11

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How is Laura physically handicapped?
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  • She has a lame leg.
  • She is blind.
  • She is autistic.
  • She has a lame arm.

Question 12

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Amanda enrolled Laura at
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  • Rubicam'd Business College
  • Radcliffe College
  • Goldsmith's School of Fine Arts
  • Missouri State

Question 13

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Laura stopped going to class because
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  • She saw how work had embittered Tom
  • She was ethically opposed to capitalism
  • One of her teachers sexually harassed her
  • The classes terrified her, to the point of making her physically ill

Question 14

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Instead of going to class, Laura spent her days
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  • Hiding with Tom at the warehouse
  • Wandering in the park and in museums
  • With an old friend of hers from high school
  • Working as a prostitute

Question 15

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Amanda takes a second job
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  • At the local hospital
  • At the shoe warehouse
  • Roping in subscribers for The Homemaker's Companion
  • At a restaurant

Question 16

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Back when she was in high school, Laura had a crush on a boy named Jim. He used to call her
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  • Li'l Amanda
  • Glass Menagerie Girl
  • Miss Wingfield
  • Blue Roses

Question 17

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Amanda never allows Laura or Tom to describe Laura's condition using the word
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  • Retarted
  • Unusual
  • Lame
  • Crippled

Question 18

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Amanda senses that Tom Wants to leave home. She tells him he can do it as soon as
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  • Laura finds a husband
  • They have saved $2000
  • Both Laura has a husband and they have saved enough money
  • Amanda has started her business
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