Scenes I-III
Scenes IV-V
Scenes VI-VII
WWII Era Writers
Poolpourri
Characters
Themes
Symbols
Tom goes to the movies
100
What nickname does Jim have for Laura?
Blue Roses
100
Tom announces that they are coming to dinner?
Jim
100
What did Tom do with the money for the electric bill?
He took it to sign up for the merchant marines.
100
He created dozens of illustrated classics, but also a whole bunch of political cartoons?
Dr. Seuss
100
He held fireside chats over the entire course of his presidency?
FDR
100
She has a glass menagerie?
Laura
100
How does abandonment play a role in this play?
Their father abandoned them and now Tom has done the same thing.
100
The glass animals
Laura's fragility, her escape from reality along with her music.
100
In 1937, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves was the first full-length film by this animation studio.
Disney
200
How does Tom react when Amanda says, "Rise and shine!"
He wants to beat his brains in.
200
Why does Tom go to the movies?
To seek adventure
200
What piece breaks when Jim and Laura are dancing?
The unicorn
200
He served in World War I, but liberated a bar in WWII and racked up a ridiculously high tab?
Ernest Hemingway
200
These Americans were placed in internment camps shortly after the incidents of Pearl Harbor?
Japanese
200
He's the narrator of the play?
Tom
200
How is living in the past a theme for this play?
Amanda constantly refers to her past and wants Laura to feel the same way as she did growing up.
200
The unicorn
Uniqueness, not based in reality
200
Unlike Tom, for Dorothy, there's no place like home in this 1939 classic.
The Wizard of Oz
300
What does Tom say when Amanda says she doesn't believe that he goes to the movies?
He tells her he is a criminal mastermind and runs cat houses and poker clubs.
300
Where does Tom return from at the beginning of Scene 4?
A Magic Show
300
Why does Tom get fired?
He writes poetry on a shoebox.
300
He wrote The Glass Menagerie and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof?
Tennessee Williams
300
Shirley Jackson's The Lottery was so shocking to readers that they did what?
Canceled their subscriptions to the New Yorker
300
She had 17 gentlemen callers.
Amanda
300
This has been a major theme throughout this class. Tom wants to achieve it by becoming free of his home responsibilities, Amanda wants to achieve it by finding her daughter a husband, and Jim wants to achieve it by working his way through the ranks of the television world.
The American Dream
300
Gentleman Caller/Marriage
Financial stability, companionship, hope
300
Perhaps Tom watched this giant monster climb to the top of the Empire State Building in 1933. Depending on how long he lived, he could have watched him do it again in 1976, 2005, and even fight Godzilla in 2021.
King Kong
400
What city does the story take place?
St. Louis
400
Who does Tom get a letter from?
The merchant marines
400
Why does Laura freak out at dinner?
She realizes that her crush from high school is coming to dinner?
400
He followed Of Mice and Men with The Grapes of Wrath in 1939?
John Steinbeck
400
Propaganda
400
He is engaged, but that doesn't stop him from kissing old high school classmates?
Jim
400
How are weakness and fragility used throughout the play?
Something about Laura here.
400
Blue Roses
Jim's nickname for Laura, gives her uniqueness, but also is a symbol of Jim's misunderstanding of her.
400
Perhaps Tom watched a double-feature and the B picture featured this British detective that resides at 221 B Baker Street and solves cases with his dear friend Watson
Sherlock Holmes
500
Why doesn't Laura go to school?
She got sick and now she's embarrassed to go back.
500
What has to happen before Tom leaves, according to Amanda?
They have to find a husband for Laura.
500
What was Jim like in high school?
He was extremely popular and good at everything.
500
Before he was writing about the Salem Witch Trials, he wrote about a salesman on the verge of a nervous breakdown?
Arthur Miller
500
What event caused the United States to join WWII?
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
500
He is often discussed, but he never appears on stage or says any lines?
Mr. Wingfield
500
Tom feels this throughout the play. He discusses it when talking about the magician and uses the fire escape to get away from this feeling?
Confinement/Being Trapped
500
Fire Escape
Escape to the outside world from the fantasy that is the apartment.
500
If you adjust for inflation, this 1939 film is the highest-grossing movie of all time at 1.8 billion dollars. It was based on a novel written by Margaret Mitchell.
Gone With the Wind