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The Glass Menagerie

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About the Play

Introduction
List of Characters
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Scene 1
Scene 2
Scene 3
Scene 4
Scene 5
Scene 6
Scene 7

Character Analyses

Amanda Wingfield
Tom Wingfield
Laura Wingfield
Jim O’Connor

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1:  What does Tom mean when he tells us that this a memory play?

a. His mother often forgot things.

b. None of the characters can remember what really happened.

c. Laura likes to exaggerate.

d. He is a character in the play.
2:  What does Laura do when she is sitting alone, playing with her glass collection and then becomes aware of Amanda arriving home?

a. She rushes to start preparing dinner.

b. She pretends to be sleeping.

c. She begins to read her typewriter study chart.

d. She telephones Tom.
3:  Who said, “I know so well what becomes of unmarried women who aren’t prepared to occupy a position”?

a. The gentleman caller

b. The maid

c. Tom

d. Amanda
4:  Tom and Amanda are arguing about a book written by what author?

a. William Faulkner

b. Joel Chandler Harris

c. D. H. Lawrence

d. Erskine Caldwell
5:  Why does Tom frequently go to the movies?

a. He likes adventure.

b. He has a secret crush on the ticket-taker.

c. He is afraid of normal social contact.

d. He wants to avoid having to take care of Laura.
6:  Amanda knows Tom’s letter from the Merchant Marine means what?

a. He is planning on leaving her and Laura.

b. He is trying to find a gentleman caller for Laura.

c. He has grounds for an insurance claim.

d. He has located his and Laura’s father.
7:  What does Tom warn Amanda about Mr. O’Connor?

a. Mr. O’Connor has a drinking problem.

b. Mr. O’Connor doesn’t know about Laura.

c. Mr. O’Connor has been fired from his last two jobs.

d. Mr. O’Connor doesn’t like to go to the movies.
8:  What does Amanda realize when the lights go out during the dinner with Jim O’Connor?

a. Tom didn’t pay the light bill.

b. Laura tampered with the fuse box.

c. Tom is ashamed of her.

d. Jim O’Connor has no sense of humor.
9:  Which of these events is one of the major turning points in the play?

a. When Tom calls in sick for work

b. When Jim O’Connor asks Laura to go to the movies with him

c. When Amanda gets intoxicated at dinner

d. When Jim O’Connor asks Laura to dance
10:  What happens when Laura’s glass unicorn is broken?

a. She becomes ill and rushes to her room.

b. She maintains that now the unicorn is normal.

c. She demands that Amanda get her a new one.

d. She tells Tom she never cared for the unicorn.
11:  What was Tennessee Williams’s intent in having Laura trip on the fire escape?

a. To emphasize her limp

b. To demonstrate that Amanda is a slovenly housekeeper

c. To suggest that Laura has trouble navigating the “outside world”

d. To suggest that Tom is a practical-joke player
12:  Jim O’Connor voices the opinion that

a. Laura should see a psychoanalyst

b. Amanda is an inconsiderate hostess

c. someone should kiss Laura

d. Tom should stop going to so many movies



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