The Basics
What They Carried
Alpha Company Men
Deaths
Themes
100
The author of The Things They Carried
Who is Tim O'Brien?
100
Letters and a picture of Martha
Who is Jimmy Cross?
100
The Lieutenant who blamed the death of one of his men on his daydreaming
Who is Jimmy Cross?
100
Was shot and then sank into the muck of a village latrine.
Who is Kiowa?
100
The intangible items that the men carry with them (name two)
What is grief, fear, ghosts, love?
200
The Vietnam War occured during these years
What is 1954-1975?
200
New Testament and distrust of the white man
Who is Kiowa
200

TThe soldier who blames himself for Kiowa's death near the Song Tra Bong.

Who is Norman Bowker?

200
Stepped on a land mine while playing with Rat Kiley
Who is Curt Lemon?
200
O'Brien's reason for not running away to Canada when he had the chance
What is pride/cowardice?
300
The name of the platoon that Tim O'Brien was in during the war before getting shot
What is Alpha Company?
300
Girlfriend's pantyhose
Who is Henry Dobbins?
300

The platoon medic. His friend is killed and he writes a letter to the dead man's sister.

Who is Rat Kiley?

300
Shot through the head in Vietnam - "zapped while zipping" (page 16)
Who is Ted Lavender?
300
This is how you can keep the dead alive
What is telling stories? (I'll also accept shaking hands for half credit)
400
The American Army's enemy (who were they fighting?) in the Vietnam War?
Who are the North Vietnamese? Who are the Viet Cong?
400
Tranquilizers and dope
Who is Ted Lavender?
400

he soldier who questions stories and searches for morals in them. He takes a thumb from a young Vietnamese boy and gives it to another soldier.

Who is Mitchell Sanders?

400
Survived the war, but felt he had no purpose back at home
Who is Norman Bowker?
400
The question Kathleen asks O'brien, to which he answers "Of, Course not!"
Did you ever kill anyone?
500
Type of fighting/warfare of the Vietnamese forces
What is guerrilla warfare/ambushing
500
Comic books and M&Ms
Who is Rat Kiley?
500
This soldier (name the soldier) tells a story about a soldier (name the soldier) who brings his girlfriend (name the girlfriend) to Vietnam. [THREE NAMES, IN ORDER]
Who are Rat Kiley, Mark Fossie, and Mary Anne?
500
Died of a brain tumor when O'Brien was young
Who is Linda?
500
Characteristics of a true war story (list two)
What is never moral, difficult to separate what really happened from what seemed to happen, cannot be believed, never seems to end, do not generalize, there is not a point, and never about war.
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