Answer the following questions, citing the page number(s) where you found the answer.  Drop the answers to your teacher by the date specified.

Questions Lesson 2 (pages 41- 72)
Act One, Scene Four
1.	How does Troy treat Rose?  What are you assumptions about “that Alberta gal”? 
2.	What memories does Troy connect with his song about Blue? 
3.	Troy gives Lyons such a hard time about borrowing money—why then, do you suppose, won’t he accept repayment when Lyons offers? 
4.	Bono and Troy both tell stories of their fathers.  How did their father influence their lives?  Did they grow up to be like their fathers? 
5.	Why do you suppose baseball means so much to Troy? 
6.	How is Lyons’ music like Cory’s football?  How is it different? 
7.	How is Lyons’ relationship with Troy different from Cory’s relationship with Troy? 
Act Two, Scene One
8.	Read the stage direction on page 59.  How do you think Cory really feels about his father? 
9.	How has the relationship between Troy and “that Alberta gal” progressed? 
10.	Why does Rose want the fence built?  Why does Troy choose hard wood for the fence? 
11.	What does Troy finally admit aloud about Alberta? 
12.	How does Troy justify his relationship with Alberta? 
13.	How does Troy use baseball to explain his life? 
14.	Do you think Troy is capable of understanding Rose’s dreams? 

15.	How does this scene end?  How are Cory’s actions like Troy’s when he was a boy? This is the climatic scene of the play.  What conflicts led up to this final confrontation between Troy, Rose, and Cory?