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Miscellaneous
100
fragments of a bomb or shell
What is shrapnel?
100
the narrator
Who is Tim O'Brien?
100
The name of the village Alpha Company burns after Ted Lavender's death
What is Than Khe?
100
The woman who Jimmy Cross loves and thinks about constantly
Who is Martha?
100
The name of Tim O'Brien's platoon
What is Alpha Company?
200
touchable
What is tangible?
200
the platoon leader
Who is Jimmy Cross?
200
This is another name for marching, or hiking, in the Vietnam War
What is humping?
200
The character who struggles with life at home, so he ends his own life
Who is Norman Bowker?
200
The girl Tim loved when he was nine.
Who is Linda?
300
full of energy or excitement
What is exuberance?
300
the big man who was excused from search the tunnels
Who is Henry Dobbins?
300
The side of Vietnam that the US is supporting in the war
What is South Vietnam?
300
Where Tim O'Brien's worked before he left for Vietnam
What is a meatpacking plant?
300
She becomes a "greenie" and runs off into the jungles of Vietnam
Who is Mary Anne?
400
reluctant acceptance
What is acquiescence?
400
Norman Bowker's old girlfriend
Who is Sally Gustafson?
400
The name of the river, which is near the spot where Kiowa died
What is the Song Tra Bong?
400
He writes to Curt Lemon's sister in America, but is infuriated when he never gets a response
Who is Rat Kiley?
400
This is the type of truth that really occurred
What is "happening-truth"?
500
the branch of armed forces dealing with supply and storage of weaponry
What is ordnance?
500
"We're having a mellow little war."
Who is Ted Lavender?
500
The year Tim O'Brien was drafted
What is 1968?
500
Tim O'Brien's daughter
Who is Kathleen?
500
The medic who replaces Rat Kiley, and messes up on Tim's 2nd injury
Who is Bobby Jorgenson?
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