Page 70 - Point 5 Literature Program Option 1 Teachers Guide (2) (1)

Answer Key to Summative Assessment
(see Rubrics on page 87)

The answer Key offers possible answers to the summative assessment questions. students’ answers
will vary. Remember to accept any answer that the student can justify from the text.

Answers might include:
1. Larry does not appear on stage, as he is missing in action as a pilot in World War II. By the end of the play it is
clear that Larry is dead.
Steve Deever, Keller’s former partner and the father of Ann and George, is in jail and never appears on stage.
2. Kate Keller says this about her husband, Joe.

3. The statement is so important because it is the climax of the play. It shows everyone present that Joe was lying
about what happened with the cracked cylinder heads, because Joe claimed he was off ill from work that day.
4. a. Distinguishing different perspectives
b. i. At the beginning of the play Chris loves Joe and believes in him.

ii. When Chris finds out his father is guilty of a war crime, he is torn between his loyalty and love, and his
horror at what Joe has done.
iii. Finally, after he reads Larry’s letter, Chris is determined to do the right thing and make his father go to the
police.

c. I chose the skill of Distinguishing different perspectives because the question asked me to show how Chris’
perspectives changed during the play.
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5. oe worked hard to have his “nice house”, his family with two sons and a successful business (i.e., plenty of
money) that he hopes to pass on to his sons. In other words, he had reached a certain level of the ‘American
Dream’. If this was his ideal, we can understand that he would do everything possible to protect it, even if it
meant putting his family’s comfort ahead of his moral responsibility to society. His decisions and actions were
based on his sense of responsibility to his family, and he repeatedly made comments such as:
For you, Kate, for both of you, that’s all I ever lived for…

Chris, I did it for you, it was a chance I took for you.
Chris, the whole shootin’ match is for you!
Fourteen months later I had one of the best shops in the state again, a respected man again; bigger than ever.

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