Streetcar Named Desire

Question 1

stained

S1 Stanley (Stage Direction)

Answer 1

Heaves the meat package at her, Roughly dressed, Red-stained

Question 2

incongruous

S1 Blanche (Stage Direction)

Answer 2

incongruous to the setting

Question 3

where

S1 Blanche on Stanley and Stella while Belle Reve was being lost

Answer 3

…I let the place go? Where were you! In bed with your - Polack!

Question 4

earliest manhood

S1 Stanley (Description)

Answer 4

Since earliest manhood the centre of his life has been pleasure with women…

Question 5

im not

Stella on her relationship with Stanley

Answer 5

I’m not in anything I want to get out of

Question 6

nearly

Stella on Stanley when he is away

Answer 6

When he’s away for a week I nearly go wild

Question 7

loud whack

S3 Stanley (Stage Direction)

Answer 7

Stanley gives a loud whack of his hand on her thigh.

Question 8

shouldnt be

S3 Mitch on poker and womne

Answer 8

Poker shouldn’t be played in a house with women.

Question 9

so much

Blanche confusion

Answer 9

There’s so much-so much confusion in this world

Question 10

rude remark

Blanche on a naked light

Answer 10

I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.

Question 11

as a lamb

Stella on Stanley’s apology

Answer 11

He was as good as a lamb when I came back and he’s really very, very ashamed of himself.

Question 12

brutal desire

Blanche on desire to Stella

Answer 12

What you are talking about is brutal desire-just-Desire!

Question 13

turn the trick

Blanche deception and sexual innuendo

Answer 13

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

Question 14

the type

Blanche on Stanley’s tastes

Answer 14

not the type that goes for jasmine perfume

Question 15

if it

Blanche on the possibilities of being married to Mitch

Answer 15

I want Mitch… very badly! Just think! If it happens!…

Question 16

I guess it is just that…

Blanche on the old south

Answer 16

I guess it is just that I have — old-fashioned ideals!

Question 17

moves back

S6 Blanche (Stage Direction)

Answer 17

Blanche moves back into the streak of light…

Question 18

roamntic gestures

S7 Blanche (Stage Direction)

Answer 18

Blanche waltzes to the music with romantic gestures…

Question 19

the king

Stanley on his place in the hierarchy

Answer 19

I am the king around here and don’t you ever forget that

Question 20

i am not

Stanley on his race

Answer 20

I am not a Polack. People from Poland are Poles, not Polacks…

Question 21

merciless glare

Blanche fear of light

Answer 21

And turn that over-light off! Turn that off! I won’t be looked at in this merciless glare!

Question 22

misrepresent things

Blanche on her own deception

Answer 22

I misrepresent things to them… I tell what ought to be truth.

Question 23

in my heart

Blanche on how she lies to herself

Answer 23

Never inside, I didn’t lie in my heart…

Question 24

intimacies

Blanche on strangers

Answer 24

intimacies with strangers was all I seemed able to fill my empty heart with

Question 25

# rapid feverish S9 Stage Direction

Answer 25

The rapid feverish polka tune, the 'Varsouviana,' is heard.

Question 26

# frantically S9 Stage Direction

Answer 26

[She rushes about frantically, hiding the bottle...]

Question 27

# you're not Mitch to Blanche about his mother

Answer 27

You're not clean enough to bring in the house with my mother.

Question 28

# I don't want none Mitch addressing Blanche's lies about alcohol

Answer 28

I told you already I don't want none of his liquor and I mean it.

Question 29

# realism Blanche on magic

Answer 29

I don't want realism. I want magic!

Question 30

# we've had Stanley on the inevitability of the sexual assault

Answer 30

We've had this date with each other from the beginning.

Question 31

# i couldn't Stella at the end about her future

Answer 31

I couldn't believe her story and go on living with Stanley.

Question 32

# I have always Blanche and strangers

Answer 32

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Question 33

# covers General Symbol Light

Answer 33

Blanche covers the exposed lightbulb with a paper lantern.

Question 34

# soothe General Symbol Bathing

Answer 34

Blanche frequently bathes to 'soothe her nerves.'