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
Sank into the muck of the village latrine; five men had to pull his body out
Who is Kiowa?
100
The intangible items that the men carry with them (name two)
What is grief, fear, ghosts, love?
200

The year and season Tim O'Brien was drafted to go to war

What is 1969

200
New Testament and distrust of the whiteman
Who is Kiowa
200

The soldier who made tasteless jokes and played pranks on the men. 

Hint: When Tim O'Brien killed a soldier, he said, "Oh man, you really trashed that f*cker! You laid him out like shredded f*cking wheat!"

Who is Azar?

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/fear of being embarassed?

300

The literary device used to go from one timeline to another within the story?

Ex) Present day --> to war---> childhood

What is Flashback?

300
Girlfriend's pantyhose
Who is Henry Dobbins?
300

The new medic of the company when O'Brien gets shot the second time. Tim almost dies of shock because he is too nervous of a medic.

Who is Bobby Jorgensen?

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

What simile was used to describe the nature of war in the chapter "spin"?

What is "war is like a ping-pong ball"?

400
Tranquilizers and dope
Who is Ted Lavender?
400

The soldier who shoots himself in the foot to escape the war

Who is Rat Kiley?

400

Survived the war, but felt he had no purpose back at home. Commits suicide at the YMCA.

Who is Norman Bowker?

400
Norman Bowker's request to Tim after the war
What is writing a story about how people are really affected by the war?
500

What are the two symbols Tim O'Brien used to express the emotional pain of Curt Lemon's death in "How to Tell A True War Story"? 

What is the baby buffalo, Rat Kiley's letter

500

Says, "I almost won the silver star"

Who is Norman Bowker?

500

Got in a fight over a pocketknife (2 names)

Who are Lee Strunk and Dave Jensen?

500

Says, "Once you're alive, you can't ever be dead"

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, makes you emotionally feel something.

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