Tim O'Brien Trivia
Tim O'Brien is a veteran of what war?
What is the Vietnam War
Who was based at a medical detachment before joining Alpha Company?
Who is Rat Kiley
"On the Rainy River" depicts how Tim O'Brien thought of running away rather than going to war. What country did drafted men contemplate escaping to in a means of avoiding war?
What is Canada
Who does Jimmy Cross write letters to?
Who is Martha
This character carried two photographs, one of which was an action shot of a woman playing volleyball at Mount Sebastian?
Who is Lt. Jimmy Cross
Tim O'Brien had just completed his undergraduate degree before being drafted. How old was he?
What is 21/22 years old
Whose death does Jimmy Cross blame himself the most for?
Who is Ted Lavender
At 18 years old, men were required to go to war if they got picked in the draft. What was the exception to this?
What is college
Who did Mark Fossie fly over to Vietnam?
Who is Mary Anne
As a medic, this character carried morphine, plasma, surgical tape, comic books and M&Ms
Who is Rat Kiley
Where was Tim O'Brien planning on attending for his graduate degree? (And he did right after the war in real life)
What is Harvard
In "Enemies", who becomes so paranoid after a fight that he broke his own nose with a pistol to call it even?
Who is Dave Jensen
What is the word Tim O'Brien uses to describe carrying their gear over long distances?
What is humping
What is the name of Tim O’Brien's daughter in the novel?
Who is Kathleen
This character, who was always scared, carried tranquilizers, “6 or 7 ounces of premium dope” and extra ammunition
Who is Ted Lavender
Within "Good Form" and Tim O'Brien's discussion of "Ambush" he makes a distinction between "happening-truth" and "story-truth." Which is used when he admits to killing the boy and describes him as having a "star shaped-hole" where his eye used to be?
What is story-truth
Mentioned shortly in “The Lives of the Dead”, Kiowa was killed during a game of catch where he stepped on a mine. What character later had to climb up into the trees and pick pieces of him out of it?
Who is Tim O’Brien
Name three physical things that soldiers carried during the war that Tim O’Brien lists in the first chapter
Ammunition, M-16 rifles, helmets, vests, C-Rations, radios, grenade launchers, tranquilizers, morphine, toothbrush, etc.
At nine years old, Tim O'Brien was in love with who?
Who is Linda
Being one of the two primary characters in Enemies and Friends, this character carried “a slingshot; a weapon of last resort”
Who is Lee Stuck
True or False: When Tim O'Brien got older he told his daughter (Kathleen) the truth about killing a man in the war?
False
In the first chapter, O’Brien describes blowing tunnels where they had to crawl the tunnels to search them. Because “he was a big man” what character was excused from tunnel duty?
Who is Henry Dobbins
In what year did the U.S. officially join the Vietnam War?
What is 1965
In “Style”, who mocks the girl dancing?
Who is Azur
This character carried moccasins, an illustrated New Testament, his grandmother's distrust of the white man and his grandfather’s old hunting hatchet
Who is Kiowa