Cat Act 1Quotes

Question 1

No-neck monsters… because they got no necks

Answer 1

Maggie, 1
Derogatory pre-modifier
Animalistic imagery

Question 2

They bought the whole bunch down here like animals to display at a county fair

Answer 2

Maggie, 1
Simile
Animalistic imagery

Question 3

Totally childless and therefore totally useless

Answer 3

Maggie, 1
Declarative
Superlatives
Syntactic parallelism

Question 4

Now we know that Big Daddy is dying of cancer

Answer 4

Maggie, 1

Question 5

[Rainbow Hill] is where they aim to ship you over my dead body

Answer 5

Maggie, 1
Idiom

Question 6

Jumping the hurdles at two or three in the morning is just fantastic

Answer 6

Maggie, 1

Question 7

You say something, Maggie

Answer 7

Brick, 1
Threatening her positive face

Question 8

That monster of fertility, Mae

Answer 8

Maggie, 1
Metaphor

Question 9

I sometimes suspect that Big Daddy harbours a little unconscious lech for me

Answer 9

Maggie, 1
Challenging Brick

Question 10

Did anyone ever tell you that you’re an ass-aching Puritan, Brick

Answer 10

Maggie, 1
Rhetorical question
Complicated religious history in America

Question 11

Scream, monsters!

Answer 11

Maggie, 1
Imperative
Derogatory vocative

Question 12

They were like a couple of card-sharps fleecing a sucker

Answer 12

Maggie, 1
Simile

Question 13

The Flynns never had a thing in this world but money, and they lost that

Answer 13

Maggie, 1

Question 14

I can’t describe it, but it froze my blood

Answer 14

Maggie, 1

Question 15

I’ve gone through this hideous transformation, become hard, frantic, cruel

Answer 15

Maggie, 1

Question 16

I’m not thin-skinned anymore, can’t afford to be thin-skinned

Answer 16

Maggie, 1

Question 17

Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living alone, if the one you love doesn’t love you

Answer 17

Maggie, 1

Question 18

I always thought drinking men lost their looks, but I was clearly mistaken

Answer 18

Maggie, 1

Question 19

It was just beginning to soften up Skipper when-

Answer 19

Maggie, 1

Question 20

I wish you would lose your looks because it would make the martyrdom of st. Maggie more bearable, but no goddamn luck

Answer 20

Maggie, 1

Question 21

Like you were playing a game with no concern with whether you won or lost

Answer 21

Maggie, 1

Question 22

The charm of the defeated. You look so cool, so cool, so enviably cool

Answer 22

Maggie, 1

Question 23

Your indifference made you wonderful at love-making

Answer 23

Maggie, 1

Question 24

If I thought you would never make love to me again, I swear I would go down to the kitchen, pull out the longest and sharpest knife and stick it straight in my heart, I swear I would

Answer 24

Maggie, 1

Question 25

My hat is still in the ring and I am determined to win

Answer 25

Maggie, 1

Question 26

What's the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? I wish I knew. Just staying on it as long as she can, I guess

Answer 26

Maggie, 1

Question 27

Forgive me, but laws of silence don't work. Laws of silence don't work. When something is festering in your imagination laws of silence don't work... it grows and festers and becomes malignant

Answer 27

Maggie, 1

Question 28

I don't want to lean on your shoulder, I want my crutch

Answer 28

Brick, 1

Question 29

The walls in this house have ears

Answer 29

Maggie, 1

Question 30

A crack in the wall? Of composure?

Answer 30

Maggie, 1

Question 31

The click that I get in my head when I've had enough of this stuff to make me peaceful

Answer 31

Brick, 1

Question 32

You keep forgetting the conditions on which I agreed to keep on living with you

Answer 32

Brick, 1

Question 33

I'm not living with you, we occupy the same cage

Answer 33

Maggie, 1

Question 34

Normal, red-blooded children

Answer 34

Mae, 1

Question 35

Why do you give dog's names to all of your kiddies?... sounds like 4 dogs and a parrot

Answer 35

Maggie, 1

Question 36

Because I'm a cat. But why can't you take a joke, Sister woman

Answer 36

Maggie, 1

Question 37

Intermission is over

Answer 37

Mae, 1

Question 38

Why am I so catty? Because I'm so consumed by envy and eaten up by longing

Answer 38

Maggie, 1

Question 39

Haven't I served my term, done my time? Can't I apply for a pardon?

Answer 39

Maggie, 1 Tricolon of interrogatives Metaphor of marriage as a prison Pleading to be freed from torment She is trapped in a lavendar marriage

Question 40

You know what I feel like all the time, like a cat on a hot tin roof

Answer 40

Maggie, 1

Question 41

Then jump off it. Jump off

Answer 41

Brick, 1

Question 42

The concert is still going on. Bravo, no necks, bravo

Answer 42

Maggie, 1

Question 43

Don't make a fool of yourself

Answer 43

Maggie, 1

Question 44

Shoot, Maggie, you just don't like children

Answer 44

Big Mamma, 1

Question 45

Well, nothing at all wrong with him except a little functional thing called a spastic colon

Answer 45

Big Mamma, 1

Question 46

It took both doctors to haul me back to my feet

Answer 46

Big Mamma, 1

Question 47

Well, fair or not fair, I want to ask you one question. Do you make Brick happy in bed?

Answer 47

Big Mamma, 1

Question 48

Who are you? I'm Maggie the cat

Answer 48

Maggie, 1

Question 49

Our sex life didn't just peter off in the usual way. It was cut short, long before the usual time to

Answer 49

Maggie, 1

Question 50

Look, Brick, how high my body stay on me

Answer 50

Maggie, 1

Question 51

I'm not that common

Answer 51

Maggie, 1

Question 52

I may sometime cheat on you with someone cause you're so insultingly eager for me to

Answer 52

Maggie, 1

Question 53

I'd be relieved to know that you find yourself a lover

Answer 53

Brick, 1

Question 54

It's malignant and it's terminal

Answer 54

Maggie, 1

Question 55

Nobody says you're dying, you've got to fool them

Answer 55

Maggie, 1

Question 56

This plan's afoot to impress him

Answer 56

Maggie, 1

Question 57

I'm genuinely fond of that old man

Answer 57

Maggie, 1

Question 58

Big daddy is what he is

Answer 58

Maggie, 1

Question 59

The biggest and finest plantation in the delta

Answer 59

Maggie, 1

Question 60

Two people in the same boat have got to take care of each other

Answer 60

Maggie, 1

Question 61

You've got to be old with money, cause to be old and without it is just awful

Answer 61

Maggie, 1

Question 62

Well now I'm dressed, all dressed, nothing else for me to do. I'm dressed, all dressed. Nothing else for me to do

Answer 62

Maggie, 1

Question 63

A fatal error telling you that thing about Skipper

Answer 63

Maggie, 1

Question 64

You got to shut up about Skipper

Answer 64

Brick, 1

Question 65

You're fooling with something that no one ought to fool with

Answer 65

Brick, 1

Question 66

Skipper and I made love if love is what you call it, because it made us both feel a bit closer to you

Answer 66

Maggie, 1

Question 67

You asked too goddamn much of the people that love you, you superior creature

Answer 67

Maggie, 1

Question 68

Life has got to be allowed to continue, even after the dream of life is all over

Answer 68

Maggie, 1

Question 69

Maggie, you want me to hit you with this crutch. Don't you know I could kill you with this crutch

Answer 69

Maggie, 1

Question 70

I had one good true thing in this life, and you are naming it dirty

Answer 70

Maggie, 1

Question 71

I'm naming it so damn clean that it killed poor skipper

Answer 71

Maggie, 1

Question 72

From that moment on Skipper was nothing but a receptacle for liquor and drugs

Answer 72

Maggie, 1

Question 73

Born poor, raised poor, expect to die poor

Answer 73

Maggie, 1

Question 74

Maggie the cat is alive. I am alive, I am alive, I am alive

Answer 74

Maggie, 1

Question 75

You're jealous, you're just jealous because you can't have babies

Answer 75

Child, 1

Question 76

How in hell on earth do you imagine that you're going to have a child by a man that can't stand you?

Answer 76

Brick, 1

Question 77

That is problem I am going to have to work out

Answer 77

Maggie, 1