1. A Streetcar Named Desire is a play written by Tennessee Williams first performed on Broadway on December 3, 1947. The play dramatizes the experiences of Blanche DuBois, a former Southern belle who, after encountering a series of personal losses, leaves her privileged background to move into a shabby apartment in ________?
A:) New England
B:) New Orleans
C:) New York
D:) France
springline- Correct option: B:) New Orleans
2. A Streetcar Named Desire : Blanche tells Stella that she has taken a leave of absence from her English-teaching position because of her nerves (which is later revealed to be a lie). Blanche laments the shabbiness of her sister's two-room flat. She finds, Who loud and rough, eventually referring to him as ‘common ?
A:) Mitch
B:) Pablo
C:) Blanche
D:) Stanley
springline- Correct option: D:) Stanley
3. A Streetcar Named Desire ; Stanley, in return, is suspicious of Blanche's motives, does not care for her manners and dislikes her presence. Stanley later questions Blanche about her earlier marriage. Blanche had married when she was very young, but her husband died due to ________?
A:) suicide
B:) heart attack
C:) accident
D:) lung disorder
springline- Correct option: A:) suicide
4. A Streetcar Named Desire : Stanley, worried that he has been cheated out of an inheritance, demands to know what happened to Belle Reve, once a large plantation and the DuBois family home. Blanche hands over all the documents pertaining to Belle Reve. While looking at the papers, Who notices a bundle of letters that Blanche emotionally proclaims are personal love letters from her dead husband?
A:) Stella
B:) Stanley
C:) Eunice
D:) Bell Reve
springline- Correct option: B:) Stanley
5. A Streetcar Named Desire : The night after Blanche's arrival, during one of Stanley's poker games, Blanche meets Mitch, one of Stanley's poker player buddies. Their chat becomes flirtatious and friendly, and Blanche easily charms him; they like each other. Suddenly becoming upset over multiple interruptions, Stanley explodes in a drunken rage and strikes _____?
A:) Pablo
B:) Mitch
C:) Stella
D:) Blanche
springline- Correct option: C:) Stella
6. When Stanley recovers, he cries out from the courtyard below for Stella to come back by repeatedly calling her name until she comes down and allows herself to be carried off to bed. After Stella returns to Stanley, Blanche and Mitch sit at the bottom of the steps in the courtyard, Who apologizes for Stanley's coarse behavior?
A:) Mexican Women
B:) Pablo
C:) Stella
D:) Mitch
springline- Correct option: D:) Mitch
7. A Streetcar Named Desire : Blanche rushes to Stella and describes Stanley as subhuman, though Stella assures Blanche that she and Stanley are fine. Stanley overhears the conversation but keeps silent. When Stanley comes in, Stella hugs and kisses him, letting Who know that her low opinion of Stanley does not matter?
A:) Mitch
B:) The Doctor
C:) Blanche
D:) Steve
springline- Correct option: C:) Blanche
8. A Streetcar Named Desire : As the weeks pass, the friction between Blanche and Stanley continues to grow. Blanche has hope in Mitch, and tells Stella that she wants to go away with him and not be anyone's problem. During a meeting between the two, Blanche confesses to Mitch that once she was married to a young man, ______?
A:) Allan Grey
B:) Eunice
C:) Steve
D:) Pablo
springline- Correct option: A:) Allan Grey
9. A Streetcar Named Desire : Later on, Stanley repeats gossip to Stella that he has gathered on Blanche, telling her that Blanche was fired from her teaching job for involvement with an under-aged student and that she lived at a hotel known for prostitution. Stella erupts in anger over Stanley's cruelty after he states that he has also told to whom?
A:) Mexican Women
B:) Women
C:) Blanche
D:) Mitch
springline- Correct option: D:) Mitch
10. A Streetcar Named Desire : As Blanche waits at home alone, Mitch arrives and confronts Blanche with the stories that Stanley has told him. At first she denies everything, but eventually confesses that the stories are true. She pleads for forgiveness. An angry and humiliated, Who rejects her?
A:) Mitch
B:) Steve
C:) Stanley
D:) Pablo
springline- Correct option: A:) Mitch
11. Stanley goes along with the act before angrily scorning Blanche's lies, hypocrisy and behavior, and advances toward her; in response, she threatens to attack him with a broken bottle, but is overpowered. Blanche collapses on the floor and Stanley is last seen taking her unconscious into his bed. The character of Blanche is thought to be based on Williams’s________?
A:) Wife
B:) Sister
C:) Niece
D:) Friend
springline- Correct option: B:) Sister
12. A Streetcar Named Desire : Although Blanche has told Stella about Stanley's assault, Stella cannot bring herself to believe her sister's story. When a doctor and, Who arrive to take Blanche to the hospital, she initially resists them and collapses on the floor in confusion?
A:) Steve
B:) Pablo
C:) matron
D:) Stella
springline- Correct option: C:) matron
13. Walden is a book by American transcendentalist writer Henry David Thoreau. The text is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings. Walden details Thoreau's experiences over the course of two years, two months, and two days in a cabin he built near Walden Pond amidst woodland owned by his friend and mentor _____ ?
A:) Ralph Waldo Emerson
B:) Ezra Pound
C:) Robert Frost
D:) William Faulkner
springline- Correct option: A:) Ralph Waldo Emerson
14. Thoreau makes precise scientific observations of nature as well as metaphorical and poetic uses of natural phenomena. Who noted that Thoreau's stay at Walden Pond was an experiment based on his teacher Emerson's ‘method and of nature’ and that it was a ‘report of an experiment in transcendental pastoralism‘?
A:) Harold Bloom
B:) Leo Marx
C:) George Orwell
D:) Kenneth Burke
springline- Correct option: B:) Leo Marx
15. Thoreau used his time at Walden Pond to write his first book, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849). By immersing himself in nature, Thoreau hoped to gain a more objective understanding of society through personal introspection. Simple living and self-sufficiency were Thoreau's other goals, and the whole project was inspired by transcendentalist philosophy, a central theme of the ______?
A:) American Romantic Period
B:) American Civil War
C:) American Literature
D:) American poetry
springline- Correct option: A:) American Romantic Period
16. There has been much guessing as to why Thoreau went to the pond ,Who stated on this note, ‘Henry went forth to battle when he took to the woods, and Walden is the report of a man torn by two powerful and opposing drives—the desire to enjoy the world and the urge to set the world straight’, ?
A:) Terry Eagleton
B:) E. B. White
C:) W.H. Auden
D:) T.E. Hulme
springline- Correct option: B:) E. B. White
17. Thoreau takes to the woods dreaming of an existence free of obligations and full of leisure. Thoreau recollects thoughts of places he stayed at before selecting Walden Pond, and quotes Roman Philosopher advice ‘consider buying a farm very carefully before signing the papers’. What is the name of the Roman Philosopher?
A:) Hypatia
B:) Boethius
C:) Cato
D:) Epictetus
springline- Correct option: C:) Cato
18. Thoreau discusses the benefits of classical literature, preferably in the original Greek or Latin, and bemoans the lack of sophistication in Concord evident in the popularity of unsophisticated literature. He also loved to read books by world travelers. He yearns for a time when each New England village supports ________?
A:) wise men
B:) political men
C:) poet
D:) great man
springline- Correct option: A:) wise men
19. Thoreau talks about how he enjoys companionship (despite his love for solitude) and always leaves three chairs ready for visitors. The entire chapter focuses on the coming and going of visitors, and how he has more comers in Walden than he did in the city. He receives visits from those living or working nearby and gives special attention to a French Canadian born woodsman named ________?
A:) Amelie
B:) Alec Therien
C:) Camille
D:) Chanel
springline- Correct option: B:) Alec Therien
20. In autumn, Thoreau discusses the countryside and writes down his observations about the geography of Walden Pond and its neighbors: Flint's Pond (or Sandy PonD:), White Pond, and Goose Pond. Although Flint's is the largest, Thoreau's favorites are Walden and White ponds, which he describes as lovelier than ______?
A:) gold
B:) pearls
C:) heaven
D:) diamonds
springline- Correct option: D:) diamonds
21. Thoreau tells the stories of people who formerly lived in the vicinity of Walden Pond. Then, he talks about a few of the visitors he receives during the winter: a farmer, a woodchopper, and his best friend, the poet _______?
A:) William Faulkner
B:) Ellery Channing
C:) Wallace Stevens
D:) E.E. Cummings
springline- Correct option: B:) Ellery Channing
22. Which chapter is a simplified version of one of Thoreau's conversations with William Ellery Channing, who sometimes accompanied Thoreau on fishing trips when Channing had come up from Concord and the conversation is about a hermit (himself) and a poet (Channing) ?
A:) Brute Neighbors
B:) Reading
C:) Visitors
D:) The Bean Field
springline- Correct option: A:) Brute Neighbors
23. Throughout the book, Thoreau constantly seeks to simplify his lifestyle: he patches his clothes rather than buy new ones, he minimizes his consumer activity, and relies on leisure time and on himself for everything. To Thoreau, self-reliance can be both spiritual as well as economic. Self-reliance was a key tenet of Transcendentalism, famously expressed in, Whose essay ‘Self-Reliance?
A:) William Faulkner
B:) Arthur Miller
C:) Emerson
D:) Ezra Pound
springline- Correct option: C:) Emerson
24. Many scholars have compared Thoreau to fellow transcendentalist writer Ralph Waldo Emerson. Although Thoreau was 14 years younger than Emerson, lots of his writing was influenced by him. Who examined the relationship between Thoreau and Emerson and the effects it had on their respective works?
A:) John Brooks Moore
B:) E.E. Cummings
C:) Henry Wordsworth
D:) John Ashbery
springline- Correct option: A:) John Brooks Moore
25. In contrast to Thoreau's ‘manly simplicity’, nearly twenty years after Thoreau's death Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson judged Thoreau's endorsement of living alone in natural simplicity, apart from modern society. Who wrote of Thoreau, ‘In one book ... he surpasses everything we have had in America?
A:) Emerson
B:) W.B. Yeats
C:) Robert Frost
D:) T.S. Eliot
springline- Correct option: C:) Robert Frost
26. Tennessee Williams (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983) was an American playwright and screenwriter. Along with contemporaries Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller, he is considered among the three foremost playwrights of 20th-century American drama. What is his original name?
A:) Thomas William II
B:) Thomas William Lanier III
C:) Thomas Lenair William II
D:) Thomas Lanier Williams III
springline- Correct option: D:) Thomas Lanier Williams III
27. Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher. A leading transcendentalist, he is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings. Thoreau's books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry amount to more than _______?
A:) 20 volumes
B:) 30 volumes
C:) 25 volumes
D:) 35 volumes
springline- Correct option: A:) 20 volumes
28. Tennessee Williams spent the spring and summer of 1948 in Rome in the company of an Italian teenager, called ‘Rafaello’ in Williams's Memoirs. He provided financial assistance to the younger man for several years afterward. Williams drew from this for his first novel_______?
A:) The Rose Tattoo
B:) Sweet Bird of Youth
C:) Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
D:) The Glass Menagerie
springline- Correct option: C:) Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
29. Tennessee Williams : Characters in his plays are often seen as representations of his family members. Laura Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie is thought to be modeled on his sister Rose. Some biographers believed that the character of Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire also is based on her. The Pulitzer Prize for Drama was awarded to A Streetcar Named Desire in ____?
A:) 1945
B:) 1946
C:) 1947
D:) 1948
springline- Correct option: D:) 1948
30. Thoreau was influenced by Indian spiritual thought. In Walden, there are many overt references to the sacred texts of India. For example, in the first chapter (‘Economy’), he writes: ‘How much more admirable the Bhagvat-Geeta than all the ruins of the ______?
A:) West
B:) East
C:) North
D:) South
springline- Correct option: B:) East