History
The names of the two places involved in the civil war
What are North and South Vietnam
The name of the company
What is Charlie Company
The weapon with with Tim killed the Viet Cong soldier
What is a grenade
The Country that Roth is visiting
What is Cambodia
The chorus line repeated after each stanza
What is "tell me lies about Vietnam"
The term applied to the American fear that communism would spread
What is the domino effect
The finding that makes the company suspicious
What is a cache of rice
The studies that Tim imagines the dead soldier to have pursued
What are maths
The type of houses he sees people living in
What are huts on stilts
the people criticized by Mitchell
What is the government
The type of warfare performed by the North Vietnamese that made it difficult for the Americans to win
What is Guerilla war
The profession that a suspicious Vietnamese with soft hans claims to have
What is a schoolteacher
The name of the soldier who enjoys the kill
Who is Azar
The items that Roth suggests should substitute bombs
What are commodities (food, medicine, et c)
The person from whose point of view the poem is told
who is a veteran
A new public agent that went to war with the soldiers and affected civilian view on the war
What is the media
The state that the Americans leave the village in
What are houses burning
The name of the soldier who tries to comfort Tim
Who is Kiowa
The writer from whom Roth copied his title
Who is Jonathan Swift
The items the public are told that planes drop (rather than bombs)
What are peppermints and daisy chains
A type of bomb that the American army was especially known for
What is napalm
The Greek term applied by Caputo to explain what happened to the soldiers
What is catharsis
The structural principle of Tim's thoughts that let us know how shocked he is
What is repetition
The type of satire used by Roth
What is Juvenalian sature
The 5 items that the chorus talks about being numbed
What are the 5 senses