Quotes
"You are never more alive then when you are almost _____"
Dead
What does Rat do after Curt Lemon dies?
Wrote Curts sister a letter
What did the Rocket Pocket get its name from?
The enemy sometimes used the place to launch rocket attacks on the airfield at Chu Lai.
What does Mitchell Sanders carry around that he played with?
Who said "You got to listen to your enemies"
Mitchell Sanders
How does Curt Lemon die?
He stepped on a grenade while him and Rat were playing their game
What does Sanders compare the war to?
A ghostly fog
"There was something about a dentist that just gave him the ______"
What did the 6 men go into the mountains for and what did they start hearing?
They went into the mountains for a basic listening post operation. They heard wacked out music and weird echos
Why did Curt Lemon begin to tense up before he got his teeth checked?
He had a couple of bad experiences with the dentist
What do the 6 men say when the colonel asks for the story of what happened on the mountain?
They don't say anything. They just look at him for a little bit.
"War makes you a man; war makes you dead"
Jimmy Cross
What wakes Cross up 20 years after the war is over?
Dave Jensen singing "lemon tree" as they threw down the parts of Curt Lemons body
True or false: Curt Lemon fainted because the dentist pulled out his tooth
False. He did faint but before the dentist even touched him.
What animal did Rat Kiley find high in the mountains and why did he kill it?
A baby water buffalo. He killed it because he was sad about Curt Lemons death.
"These six guys, they don't say boo for a solid week. They don't got ______. All ____."
Tounges; Ears
What do you find out at the end of the chapter?
He made up the whole story
What did the dentist do to Curt Lemons perfectly fine tooth and why?
He pulled it out because Curt claimed that he had a "monster toothache"
Name 3 of the things that Cross says the war is
Hell, mystery, terror, adventure, courage, discovery, holiness, pity, despair, longing, love, nasty, fun, thrilling, drudgery