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Tennessee Williams, This Property Is Condemned

Tennessee Williams, This Property Is Condemned

Read This Property Is Condemned and check your comprehension by answering the following questions. Then “submit” your work.

1. What does Willie say “a girl needs to get along”?

a good man to take care of her

education

acting skills

social training

2. What is “The Main Attraction” of the boarding house?

the secret stash of booze, liberally shared

the cheap, comfortable rooms

the continental breakfast

Alva, Willie’s sister

3. What does Willie compare the sky to during the course of the play?

a clean piece of paper

a marshmallow candy land

a bracelet of shimmering diamonds

the blue, blue eyes of her dead sister

4. What does Tom want Willie to do?

give him her diamond ring

dance naked for him

fly his kite with him in a field some miles away

try to walk the railroad line hopping on one foot

5. Where does Willie live now and who is her caretaker?

She lives in the boarding house with her sister, Alva.

She lives in a nice house with her former school teacher, Miss Preston.

She lives in the condemned house alone.

She lives in a shack under the bridge with her mother.