Death of a Salesman Study Guide questions and answers

Willy Loman is a 25 year old door to door salesman False Linda his wife loves him and admires his drive to make g is dreams come true True Willy feels that he is in top of things and in control in the first scene False The boys are happy and successful in their jobs making money and being well liked False Neither if the boys live at home True Biff and Will don't get along because Willy is frustrated that Biff does not have higher ambitions for himself True Biff only wants to be working outside with his shirt off True Biff is 20 years old False Biff is happy with his job because he lives it True Happy is content with his life True Happy admires the managers of his business and is respectful of them False Happy uses women True Biffs dream is to be the manager of a large corporation False Willy is in touch with reality False When he boys were young Willy spent time with them trying to be involved in their lives True Willy is trying to be the same kind of father his father was to him False Willys dream is to own his own business False Willy always emphasized sports integrity and academics equally to the boys False Willy is so optimistic sometimes that he exaggerates Thu vs and fails to fix problems True Willy makes plenty of money to support the family comfortably False Willy is faithful to his wife False Willy insists on honesty in his sons False Willy taught his sons that they should expect no special treatment in anything they did False Willy has built a powerful legacy (inheritance) for his sons False Willys brother Ben was always with he family encouraging g Willy to do his best as he grew up False Ben traveled to Africa and opened a diamond mine Willy believes True Willy lapses in and out if realtuy reliving days of glory in his past True Willy still makes enough money to meet his and Linda's needs False Willy still sells lots of merchandise False Willy is tired and ready to quit his job True Willy hopes that he boys will come home to help him with expenses now that he is ready to retire True Willy approves of how both boys live False Biff promises to come home and help his parents True Willy has an answer to his problems but is too proud to accept it True The boys decide to ope a grocery store to finally make everyone's dreams come true False Biff and Happy get up early to see Oliver for the loan to begin a sporting goods business False Willy plans to quit his job False Willy hopes to share in he profits of the sporting goods store and eventuallt move to the country True Willy doesn't care if he ever sees the boys again or not False Willy goes to his boss and asks for job in town True Howard said ok to Willys request False Willy left Howard's office with new hopes of greater success False Willy lives in hope for Biffs success in the future to give the family the success it never really had True Biffs success means that Willy was successful father and example True Bernards success as an attorney encourages Willy that Biff and Happy can become successful also True Bernard says that Biff has not succeeded because he has never trained for and stayed with anything long enough True Biff graduated from high school with honors False Willy encouraged Biff to succeed academically False Biff(as a young man)goes to his father to help with problems because he truly admires Willy and thinks he is a powerful man True Biff goes to Boston and finds Willy with a mistress being unfaithful to Linda True