The Glass Menagerie

Multiple Choice

1. B (Part 1, Scene 2)

2. D (Part 1, Scene 1)

3. A (Part 2, Scene 7)

4. C (Part 1, Scene 4)

5. C (Part 2, Scene 7)

6. C (Part 2, Scene 6)

7. C (Part 1, Scene 2)

8. D (Part 1, Scene 5)

9. A (Part 1, Scene 3)

10. C (Part 2, Scene 6)

11. A (Part 1, Scene 2)

12. C (Part 2, Scene 6)

13. A (Part 1, Scene 4)

14. C (Part 1, Scene 4)

15. D (Various scenes)

Long Answer

1. Tom says the play is dimly lighted because it’s a memory and is not realistic (Part 1, Scene 1). Amanda, Tom, and Laura wish on the moon (Part 1, Scene 5), and Amanda tells Tom to go to the moon (Part 2, Scene 7), but the moon is unattainable. The apartment lights go out because Tom used the money to pay for his escape instead of paying the bill (Part 2, Scene 7). They eat dinner in candlelight, Jim and Laura talk and dance in candlelight, and Tom remembers Laura in candlelight, all representing illusion, memory, and/or departure from reality (Part 2, Scene 7).

2. Amanda says she got malarial fever due to the “change of climate” when gentlemen were calling on her (Part 2, Scene 6) and gives the sudden onset of summer heat as the reason for putting on her old light dress (Part 2, Scene 6). Tom mentions delicate rainbow colors from the lights of the Paradise Dance Hall (Part 1, Scene 5) and a shop window filled with colored glass like bits of shattered rainbow (Part 2, Scene 7). He gives Laura a rainbow-colored scarf (Part 1, Scene 4) and equates music, liquor, movies, and sex with a chandelier that sheds deceptive rainbows (Part 1, Scene 5). Laura equates the sound of her leg brace with thunder (Part 1, Scene 2). Tom says that the world “nowadays,” at the time he recounts his memories, is “lit by lightning” (Part 2, Scene 7), a possible reference to World War II.