Tennessee William's A Streetcar Named Desire, Exam Based Questions

Tennessee William's

A Streetcar Named Desire

1. Who is the protagonist of A Streetcar Named Desire? (NET, PGTRB, UPSC)

a) Stella Kowalski

b) Blanche DuBois

c) Stanley Kowalski

d) Harold Mitchell (Mitch)

Answer: b) Blanche DuBois

2. Which city is the play A Streetcar Named Desire set in? (TNPSC, NET)

a) Chicago

b) New Orleans

c) Memphis

d) Atlanta

Answer: b) New Orleans

3. Blanche DuBois is a former schoolteacher of which subject? (CUET, PGTRB)

a) History

b) English

c) Music

d) Mathematics

Answer: b) English

4. Which symbolic transport does Blanche say brought her to Stella’s home? (UPSC, NET)

a) A ferry boat

b) A streetcar named Desire

c) A train called Freedom

d) A cab named Fate

Answer: b) A streetcar named Desire

5. Stella Kowalski is married to whom? (TNPSC, CUET)

a) Allan Grey

b) Stanley Kowalski

c) Mitch

d) Shep Huntleigh

Answer: b) Stanley Kowalski

6. What does Blanche habitually drink throughout the play? (NET, PGTRB)

a) Coffee

b) Wine

c) Whiskey

d) Rum

Answer: c) Whiskey

7. Who is Blanche’s young husband who died tragically? (UPSC, NET)

a) Allan Grey

b) Shep Huntleigh

c) Mitch

d) Stanley

Answer: a) Allan Grey

8. How did Blanche’s husband Allan Grey die? (CUET, NET)

a) In a car accident

b) In a duel

c) He shot himself after being exposed as homosexual

d) He drowned

Answer: c) He shot himself after being exposed as homosexual

9. Who is Mitch in the play? (TNPSC, PGTRB)

a) Blanche’s cousin

b) Stella’s brother

c) Stanley’s poker friend and Blanche’s suitor

d) A doctor

Answer: c) Stanley’s poker friend and Blanche’s suitor

10. Which song plays when Blanche recalls her husband’s suicide? (NET, CUET)

a) “Blue Piano”

b) “Varsouviana Polka”

c) “It’s Only a Paper Moon”

d) “Moonlight Sonata”

Answer: b) “Varsouviana Polka”

11. What does Stanley give Blanche as a birthday gift? (UPSC, PGTRB)

a) A mirror

b) A bus ticket back to Laurel

c) A bottle of perfume

d) A set of pearls

Answer: b) A bus ticket back to Laurel

12. Which motif in the play represents desire and destruction? (NET, CUET)

a) Poker games

b) Bathing

c) The streetcar

d) The paper lantern

Answer: c) The streetcar

13. Blanche covers the light bulb with a paper lantern to— (PGTRB, TNPSC)

a) Beautify the room

b) Hide her aging looks from others

c) Make Stella happy

d) Keep Stanley calm

Answer: b) Hide her aging looks from others

14. Who eventually exposes Blanche’s lies to Mitch? (NET, UPSC)

a) Stella

b) Stanley

c) Eunice

d) Doctor

Answer: b) Stanley

15. What tragic event occurs in Scene 10? (PGTRB, TNPSC)

a) Blanche’s death

b) Blanche is raped by Stanley

c) Mitch beats Stanley

d) Stella leaves Stanley

Answer: b) Blanche is raped by Stanley

16. What happens to Blanche at the end of the play? (NET, CUET)

a) She moves to Shep Huntleigh’s mansion

b) She is arrested for fraud

c) She is taken to a mental institution

d) She marries Mitch

Answer: c) She is taken to a mental institution

17. Which famous line does Blanche say at the end of the play? (UPSC, NET)

a) “I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.”

b) “The horror! The horror!”

c) “To be or not to be.”

d) “Tomorrow is another day.”

Answer: a) “I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.”

18. Which major theme does the play NOT deal with? (PGTRB, TNPSC)

a) Illusion vs. reality

b) Class conflict

c) Colonial expansion

d) Sexual desire and violence

Answer: c) Colonial expansion

19. Who won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for A Streetcar Named Desire in 1948? (NET, UPSC)

a) Eugene O’Neill

b) Arthur Miller

c) Tennessee Williams

d) Edward Albee

Answer: c) Tennessee Williams