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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Skipper?
(a) Brick's former college football buddy
(b) Maggie's ex-husband
(c) The Pollitts' stable boy
(d) Maggie's former boyfriend

2. What does the doctor intend to tell Big Mama tonight?
(a) The truth about Big Daddy's disease
(b) Which medications Big Daddy needs
(c) That she has cancer
(d) That Big Daddy needs a vacation

3. Why does Maggie plead with Brick?
(a) She wants to adopt a child
(b) She wants to buy some new clothes
(c) She wants to return to their home
(d) She cannot bear his indifference any longer

4. What is the location for the setting?
(a) The countryside
(b) New Orleans
(c) The Pollitt plantation
(d) Biloxi

5. Why is the inheritance such a critical factor now?
(a) Big Mama had a stroke
(b) Big Daddy is dying of cancer
(c) The stock market is plunging
(d) Brick needs the money

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Maggie call herself?

2. Who is Mae?

3. What does Big Daddy think of Brick?

4. What is Brick doing when Maggie is talking to him?

5. Who interrupts Brick and Maggie by pounding on the door?

(see the answer key)

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