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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chris think that he and Joe should tell Kate?

2. What action has Ann's mother recently decided against?

3. What did Ann nearly do two years ago?

4. What instrument does Kate Keller want Sue Bayliss to take up?

5. Whose son constantly takes people's temperatures?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Joe blame Kate for his scandal?

2. Why is Joe asleep at the beginning of Act 2?

3. What order does Kate Keller give her son and husband?

4. What favor does Ann ask of Kate and why?

5. What promise does Joe make Chris regarding Ann and why?

6. How do Joe and Chris view the world differently?

7. Why does Kate have to go into the house?

8. Explain Joe Keller's logic for Steve Deever's "mistake" at the factory.

9. How does Joe defend himself to Chris regarding the money he made?

10. What does Ann believe about Larry's fate?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is Arthur Miller's attitude toward America after the Second World War? Does he believe there is any hope that it can retain its ideals? Use three examples from the text of All My Sons to justify your understanding of Miller's world view?

Essay Topic 2

Characters in All My Sons make frequent reference to the supernatural in the play, as if there were an otherworldly hand guiding their daily actions. Write an essay in the following three parts:

Part 1) Examine how the destruction of Larry's tree - and the dream that surrounds its destruction - affects Kate Keller's world. What significance does she assign to it?

Part 2) What is Frank Lubey's world view, and how is it the result of the life he has lived to this point in his life?

Part 3) What does Jim Bayliss have to say about the nature of fate and the stars in the third act? How is it a refutation of the ideas of both Frank Lubey and Kate Keller?

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast the characters of Steve Deever and Joe Keller. The two are often compared and analyzed by Joe and others. Which is the more dominant in the relationship and how does each's attitude toward the other affect the plot?

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