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A Streetcar Named Desire

Tennessee Williams

Type

Play

Published

1947

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What is the name of the psychiatric institution where Blanche DuBois is taken at the end of A Streetcar Named Desire?

AWhitfield Hospital
BBellevue Hospital
CMilledgeville State Hospital
DBelle Reve Sanitarium

Rationale

At the play's conclusion, Blanche is taken away by a doctor and a matron to Milledgeville, a mental health facility in Georgia. Her poignant final line — "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers" — is delivered as she is led out, symbolizing her complete psychological and social breakdown.

What is the name of the psychiatric facility where Blanche DuBois is taken at the end of the play?

AMercy General Hospital
BBelle Reve Sanitarium
CMilledgeville State Hospital
DThe Flamingo Hotel

Rationale

At the end of the play, Blanche is taken away by a doctor and nurse to Milledgeville, a state mental hospital in Georgia. This conclusion highlights the heartbreaking unraveling of Blanche's grip on reality and her eventual defeat in Stanley's harsh world.

In Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire, what streetcar does Blanche DuBois take to get to her sister Stella's home in New Orleans?

ACemeteries
BDesire
CElysian Fields
DBelle Reve

Rationale

Blanche informs Stella that she was told to "take a streetcar named Desire, and then transfer to one called Cemeteries." The streetcar named Desire serves as both an actual mode of transport and an important symbol reflecting the play's themes of yearning and self-destruction.

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