Act 1

Questions

1. What do Joe and Doctor Bayliss talk about at the beginning of the play?
2. What felled the tree?
3. What is strange about the tree being struck down?
4. What does Lydia want to know?
5. What does Bert want to see?
6. What is the issue with Chris proposing to Annie?
7. What does Chris threaten to do if Joe doesn't encourage Kate to support his marriage?
8. Why is Kate happy the tree blew down?
9. What did Kate imagine when she heard the wind?
10. What does Kate say about Ann when Chris shows admiration for his partner?
11. Joe and Steve were accused of selling what items to the Air Force?
12. How many planes crashed because of the cracked cylinder heads?
13. Who do Ann and her brother blame for the deaths of the American pilots?
14. Why, according to Joe, did Steve send the cracked cylinders to the Air Force?
15. Why is Joe preoccupied with the phone call from George?

Answers

1. Weather and want ads
2. Lightning
3. The tree was planted in memory of Larry and was struck down in his birth month.
4. If Ann's married
5. The jail Joe keeps in his basement
6. Chris' mother still thinks she's Larry's girl.
7. Leave town and the family business
8. It affirms for her that Larry is still alive.
9. Larry flying by in his fighter plane
10. Ann has put on a little weight.
11. Cracked cylinder heads
12. 21
13. Their father
14. He feared Joe and the military would be displeased with the mistake so he kept quiet about it.
15. He's afraid George will want to open up his father's case again.