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7.06 Quiz Checkpoint | The Glass Menagerie | American Literature Exam Q’s and A’s
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7.06 Quiz Checkpoint | The GlassMenagerie | American Literature Exam
Q’s and A’s
How does Williams introduce the character of Laura in The Glass Menagerie?
(a) She lives in a world of fantasy and suffers from mental health issues since
being abandoned by her father.
(b) She looks forward to meeting a man and getting married, so she
encourages Tom to fix her up on a date.
(c) Laura is a shy young woman whose disability has left her anxious and
nervous.
(d) Laura longs to be independent but is too timid to defy her mother's
controlling behavior. - -(c) Laura is a shy young woman whose disability has
left her anxious and nervous.
-What is a theme of the play The Glass Menagerie?
(Select the two correct answers.)
(a) Hiding one's true feelings can lead to alienation in relationships.
(b) It is better to face reality than to live in a fantasy world.
(c) Believing in oneself is difficult when confidence is low.
(d) One should always live in the present but plan for the future.
(e) Crippling indecision can be used as a crutch to avoid life. - -(a) Hiding
one's true feelings can lead to alienation in relationships.
AND
(b) It is better to face reality than to live in a fantasy world.
-How do the faded, transparent portières, or curtains, in the Wingfields'
apartment affect the play?
, (a) They serve as the walls of the apartment to distinguish one room from
another for viewers.
(b) They evoke a dim, hazy appearance of the apartment, giving it the
impression of a memory.
(c) They emphasize the lack of privacy for Laura, who sleeps on the sofa in
the living room.
(d) They give the apartment a soft, feminine atmosphere, reminiscent of
Amanda's Southern roots.
(Read the passage.)
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
The Wingfield apartment is in the rear of the building, one of those vast hive-
like conglomerations of cellular living-units that flower as warty growths in
overcrowded urban centres of lower-middle-class population and are
symptomatic of the impulse of this largest and fundamentally enslaved
section of American society to avoid fluidity and differentiation and to exist
and fun - -(c) They emphasize the lack of privacy for Laura, who sleeps on
the sofa in the living room.
-What do the flowers, the jonquils, Amanda brings out symbolize in The
Glass Menagerie?
(a) Their beauty and fragility provide a contrast to Laura's unstable
emotional well-being.
(b) They suggest Amanda's beauty when she first met and married Mr.
Wingfield.
(c) They represent Amanda's disconnect with reality and her longing for her
youth.
(d) They indicate hope for Amanda that her children's lives will improve in
the near future. - -(c) They represent Amanda's disconnect with reality and
her longing for her youth.
-Which line from the play The Glass Menagerie introduces a matter that is
left uncertain for readers?
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