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The story of "A Streetcar Named Desire" largely takes place in this city.
New Haven
New York
New Orleans
The story takes place in New Orleans' French Quarter. This neighborhood is a colorful and historic landmark for the state and the USA.
New Jersey
This classic film was an adaptation of a Pulitzer Prize-winning stage play. Which famous American playwright wrote it?
Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams is the author who penned the play, "A Streetcar Named Desire." Most of the actors who appeared on the stage version were cast in the film version.
Neil Simon
Jonathan Dempsey
William Shakespeare
Which of the film’s characters was actually planning to ride a streetcar named “Desire?"
William Kurtz
Blanche DuBois
Blanche DuBois is the character we see in the opening, who says she should ride a streetcar named Desire. It’s part of a list of directions to get to a certain apartment.
Larry Wachowski
Stella Suarez
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Out of towner Blanche went to New Orleans to be with Stella DuBois. How are they related?
sisters
Stella is Blanche's sister. While the former seems to be more independent and city slicker-like, the latter appears to be more sophisticated and aristocratic, like a typical, rich southern belle.
mother and daughter
cousins
lovers
It was revealed that Stella has been married to Stanley Kowalski, and they’re living in a cramped apartment. Which Hollywood legend played Stanley, identifying him with this iconic role forever?
Cary Grant
Marlon Brando
Marlon Brando got his first acting chops through the stage version of this film. So when they were casting for the film, it seemed natural that he play Stanley.
Gene Kelly
Humphrey Bogart
Blanche DuBois is another iconic character in Hollywood. Which actress played her?
Vivien Leigh
Vivien Leigh played Blanche in the film and in the stage version on London's West End. She was cast due to her celebrity status, even though Jessica Tandy originated the role on Broadway.
Jessica Tandy
Rita Hayworth
Lillian Gish
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Blanche unexpectedly came to Stella and Stanley’s apartment in order to do this.
live there
Blanche hauled all her things and had them delivered to Stella’s apartment. She apparently planned to live there for good.
sleep overnight
drop some old documents
hide from the police
Blanche had a career prior to arriving in New Orleans. What was she?
policewoman
nurse
high school teacher
Blanche used to be a high school English teacher.
rancher
The DuBois sisters kept on talking about how they lost their huge family estate in Mississippi. What was the name of their property?
Grand Marnier
Neverland
Rancho Estate
Belle Reve
Belle Reve is the name of the once aristocratic DuBois family estate in Mississippi. Blanche apparently lost claim to it after paying off debts when her parents died. Stella had been gone from the property longer, so she felt detached.
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Stanley appears to be a blue-collar worker in the story. But he also revealed that he had served in this industry.
medical
military
Stanley served as a master sergeant in the military. That might explain his buffed muscles in that tight shirt...
rogue nation
education
Blanche tells sketchy stories about her recent past, to Stanley’s ire. In one of her stories, she revealed how she went out of the teaching business. What happened there?
she got fired
Aside from losing Belle Reve to debts, Blanche was also fired from her job.
her students died
she killed the principal
the school burned down
Stanley doesn’t buy everything Blanche tells them, especially about being in dire straits, since she seems to have lots of fancy stuff. What particular thing did Stanley point out?
her 3,000 pairs of shoes
her tiara collection
her white fox fur
With her huge luggage arriving in their cramped apartment, Stanley points out to his wife, Stella, how Blanche could afford fancy stuff like her white fox fur on a teacher’s salary. Something doesn’t add up...
her art collection
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Stanley also fixated on Blanche’s pearls and other jewelry, but Stella says that some of these were rhinestone. How did she describe rhinestones to her blue-collar lover?
like jewelry but not shiny
next door to glass
Stella has a way with words, as she described how rhinestones are just "next door to glass.†So this means the stuff is practically not priceless.
imitation metal
similar to stoneware
Blanche's former civil status was also revealed. What was this secret?
she got divorced
she was married once
Stella revealed that Blanche had been married. But she warned Stanley to never bring that up. Good luck with that!
she’s illegitimate
she’s an illegal alien
Stanley was fixating about Blanche’s "dolling up" style. Blanche responded that a woman’s charm is 50 percent this ...
fake
lipstick
illusion
"A woman's charm is 50 percent illusion,†Blanche says. That’s why she creates illusions -- to look younger, prettier, and even kinder.
composure
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Blanche was carrying a bunch of personal papers about which she’s very touchy. What are these papers?
love letters
Blanche also carries with her a bunch of envelopes full of love letters. She said they contained “poems a dead boy wrote†to her. Awww...
divorce papers
job rejection letters
official draft for the army
Since Blanche is so aristocratically sophisticated, Stanley called himself this...
evil one
unrefined type
Stanley speculated that Blanche might see him as the unrefined type. Whether it’s to mock himself or to mock Blanche even more, the southern belle didn’t seem to care.
dark side believer
conservative
Stanley is so hung up on Blanche and Stella losing Belle Reve, he keeps on citing the Napoleonic Code. What does that code state?
men are the only breadwinners in the family
women’s laws on how to please a husband
Toxic Masculinity 101 rules
anything a wife owns, her husband has a share in it as well
It’s a very old code that doesn't hold water anymore in New Orleans, but the Napoleonic Code stated that a husband also owned whatever his wife owned. So if Blanche lost Stella’s Belle Reve share, Stanley lost his share as well! Or so he thinks.
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Once in a while, this get-together happens in their apartment with Stanley’s lead.
movie marathon night
jiujitsu classes
poker night with the boys
Poker night with the boys is a regular ritual in Stanley’s small household. By boys, he means his male friends come over to play and talk shop and other manly stuff.
striptease show
A peek into Stanley and Stella’s relationship gets disturbing for onlookers when he does this to her.
slaps her butt in front of people
Stanley apparently slaps Stella in the butt. That might be fine in private, but the public sometimes gets uneasy seeing that, especially women!
french kisses her torridly
ignores her talking
makes her cook naked
One of Stanley’s poker boys notices the pretty Blanche and continues his well-behaved manner, especially when she’s around. Who is he?
Mitch
Mitch, Stanley’s seemingly gentlemanly friend, behaves properly when Blanche is around. He was played by Karl Malden, who also played the role on Broadway.
Pablo
Steve
Louie
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Out of all the items a man could carry, Mitch carries this particular thing with an inscription on it. What does he carry?
cigarette case
Mitch is a smoker. He carries an inscribed cigarette case.
money clip
watch
cufflinks
Blanche discovers that Mitch’s cigarette case inscription is from a poem. Which poet did she say wrote the poem from which the inscription was taken?
Browning
Blanche recognizes the inscription in Mitch’s cigarette case -- "And if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death†-- as the last lines of an Elizabeth Barrett Browning poem. Hey, she was an English teacher, after all"
Eliot
Cummings
Dickinson
It’s not only Blanche who has secrets. Stella wants to keep this secret from her sister. What is it?
she’s having a baby
Stella is pregnant with Stanley’s child, but she doesn’t want to mention it to Blanche. Some reasons are understandable, but not to Stanley.
she’s getting divorced
she’s a lesbian
she married the wrong man
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In their brief getting-to-know-you in between poker nights, Mitch was able to assess that Blanche was not one of these.
crazy
a has-been
an old maid
“You're certainly not an old maid,†a smitten Mitch tells Blanche. To which she replies “We've made enchantment,†and they start dancing to radio music.
a know-it-all
Mitch and Blanche’s connection seemed to irk Stanley so much that he did this to the radio to stop the music.
guts it out
throws it out the window
A seemingly drunk Stanley was so upset that he threw the radio out the window. Never mind that he destroyed his own apartment windows in the process.
kicks it to make it stop working
unplugs it
In another scary peek at Stella and Stanley’s marriage, everyone at poker night was shocked when Stanley did this to Stella.
punched her
First he shouts at everyone who seems to be enjoying the music on the radio, then he throws the radio out the window, then punches Stella when she tries to pacify him. What will Stanley do next?
spit at her
kissed her passionately
undressed her in public
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As a consequence of Stanley punching Stella, she ran upstairs to stay with their neighbor-friend, while the poker boys did this to Stanley.
punched him back
took him under the shower
Punching Stella is a no-no for many, including Stanley’s friends. So they placed him under the shower, and let him wash his toxicity away.
dragged him downstairs
spit at him
When he finally came to, Stanley went out to the apartment courtyard and did this to atone for his sin.
sat down and prayed
kissed the ground
knelt down there until dawn
shouted Stella's name, asking her to come back
The iconic Stanley shout of “Hey Stella!†while looking so sorry and disheveled has been imitated in global pop culture for decades. Brando perfected the role and this act on Broadway first.
We are all familiar with Stanley's popular "Hey Stella!†scene. What did Stella do after he shouted her name?
she threw a TV set on him
she didn’t hear it
she went downstairs and back into his arms
She went down the staircase slowly, as if accepting Stanley’s agony, then made up with him as he carried her home. Learn your lesson, dude!
she slept through it
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Still hung up on Blanche’s recent past, Stanley found out Blanche stayed at a hotel after she lost Belle Reve. What was the hotel's name?
Hotel New Hampshire
Bates Motel
Hotel Flamingo
Stanley found out that Blanche was staying at the Hotel Flamingo, from which she was later thrown out after she developed a bad reputation. The reputation had something to do with bringing in “wealthy guests."
Sogo Hotel
Mitch and Blanche went out on a date that ignited their passion even more. What did they plan as a result.
they want to have children
they want to travel to New York
they want to get married
Mitch seemed bent on marrying Blanche. Blanche also sees Mitch as a sort of savior, so it works for her.
they want to date in a planetarium next
Stanley told Mitch that Blanche had been a prostitute, and that turns off the marriage plans. As many of her other dark secrets arise, it takes its toll on her and she starts experiencing this.
mental breakdown
Blanche starts to have a mental breakdown when her dark past slowly starts catching up with her. It doesn’t help that Stanley speeds up the process.
itching due to stress
loss of hair
fatigue
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Unsure whether it’s real or a sign of her mental degradation, Blanche repeatedly starts seeing a woman uttering the line “flores para los muertos.†What does that mean?
flowers for the girlies
flowers are wilted plants
flowers are colored black
flowers for the dead
Blanche feels panicky, and when she does, sees a woman outside saying “flores para los muertos.†Why the woman in the French Quarter is saying “flowers for the dead†in Spanish, and not in French, apparently didn’t matter much to her.
Stanley and Stella had finally arranged for Blanche to be committed. As the mental institution doctor was escorting Blanche outside, she said this classic line of being dependent on a certain quality of strangers. What was this quality?
kindness
During the closing scene, Blanche utters one of the most iconic lines from this play-turned-film. Vivien Leigh emphatically delivers it as she says, “I've always depended on the kindness of strangers."
charity
power
anonymity
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