Show:
Quotable Quotes
Symbolism
Themes
Society/history
Grab bag
100
"So what are we going to do the rest of our lives? Stay home and watch the parades go by?"
-Amanda, The Glass Menagerie
100
In The Glass Menagerie, Laura is compared to this.
Blue roses
100
Firebugs is a metaphor for which world-changing event?
World War II / the Holocaust
100
This play deals with war as a concept.
Mother Courage
100
Which glass animal is Laura's oldest?
the unicorn
200
"Well, you got what you asked for, with your haggling and trying to keep your cart. Eleven bullets they gave him, that's all."
- Yvette, Mother Courage
200
These two elements are important symbols in Riders to the Sea.
Wind, sea, land
200
Which play involves religion and Irish heritage?
Riders to the Sea
200
This play evokes the human aspects of the Great Depression and the approach of World War II
The Glass Menagerie
200
Name the two firebugs.
Schmitz and Eisenring
300
"Many things may start a fire, but not every fire that starts in the work of inexorable fate."
Chorus leader, Firebugs
300
In Firebugs, this element is symbolic of any atrocity that man does nothing about.
Fire
300
In these two plays, the playwrights were inspired by Greek tragedy.
Firebugs and Desire Under the Elms
300
This play was written at a time when womens' rights was at the forefront of American politics.
Trifles
300
In Desire Under the Elms, where do Simon and Peter go, and why?
California, the gold rush
400
"They're all gone now, and there isn't anything more the sea can do to me..."
Maurya, Riders to the Sea
400
The bird in Trifles is used as a symbol. In what play from the 19TH century is a bird also used as a symbol for a woman?
Miss Julie
400
The Glass Menagerie involves these three themes.
Escape, memory, responsibility, or family.
400
This play was written pre-World War II and is now considered a warning of what was to come.
Firebugs
400
What class did Laura and Jim have together in high school?
Chorus
500
"It's a jim-dandy farm, no denyin'. Wished I owned it!"
Sheriff, Desire Under the Elms
500
In The Glass Menagerie, this is symbolic of the family.
the menagerie
500
These two plays show evidence of Brechtian influence.
Firebugs and The Glass Menagerie
500
In this play, the playwright presented the real lives of extraordinary people who rely on nature to survive.
Riders to the Sea
500
In Mother Courage, name two instances where emotional disconnect happens between the title character and the audience.
- Swiss Cheese's death (refused to recognize) - Catholic / Protestant flag switch others?