APPEARANCE REALITY

Question 1

Description of the Kowalski apartment

Answer 1

‘white frame, weathered grey’

Question 2

Blanche’s first appearance and attire

Answer 2

‘delicate beauty, white suit…white gloves’

Question 3

Blanche’s aversion to bright light

Answer 3

‘Turn that over-light off! … merciless glare’

Question 4

Blanche contrasts funerals and actual death

Answer 4

‘funerals are pretty compared to deaths’

Question 5

Stanley rummaging through Blanche’s belongings

Answer 5

‘the treasure chest of a pirate’

Question 6

Blanche’s sensual, dramatic clothing

Answer 6

‘red satin robe’

Question 7

Stanley mocks Blanche behind the curtain

Answer 7

‘over her head he grins through the curtains at Blanche’

Question 8

Blanche admitting her fading youth and desperation

Answer 8

‘I don’t know how much longer I can turn the trick…’

Question 9

Blanche’s theatrical fantasy with Mitch

Answer 9

‘my rosenkavalier! Bow to me first!’

Question 10

Stanley mocks Blanche’s bath routine

Answer 10

‘her majesty in the tub?’

Question 11

Blanche sings of illusion and belief

Answer 11

‘it’s only a paper moon…if you believed in me!’

Question 12

Blanche rejects reality in favor of illusion

Answer 12

‘I don’t want realism…. I want magic!’

Question 13

Blanche’s appearance becomes disheveled

Answer 13

‘soiled and crumpled white satin… scuffed silver slippers’

Question 14

Blanche violently reacts to her reflection

Answer 14

‘slams the mirror face down… glass cracks’

Question 15

Blanche insists on her emotional richness

Answer 15

‘How strange that I should be called a destitute woman!’

Question 16

The doctor becomes humanized

Answer 16

‘He takes off his hat and now becomes personalized’

Question 17

Symbolic madness

Answer 17

‘The Varasouviana… cries and noises of the jungle’

Question 18

Stella choosing Stanley over Blanche

Answer 18

‘I couldn’t believe her story and go on living with Stanley’

Question 19

Blanche repeats song lyrics about fantasy

Answer 19

‘but it wouldn’t be make-believe if you believed in me!’

Question 20

Stella justifies Blanche’s mental breakdown

Answer 20

‘she had an experience that—killed her illusions!’

Question 21

Blanche describing her transient lifestyle

Answer 21

‘I am spending the summer on the wing’

Question 22

Blanche fantasizing about travel

Answer 22

‘I shall take a sudden notion to swoop down on Dallas’

Question 23

Blanche fears losing her allure

Answer 23

‘You’ve got to be soft and attractive… I’m fading now!’

Question 24

Stanley mocks Blanche’s appearance

Answer 24

‘Right on my pretty white skirt!’