Characters 101
Themes
They Carried..
Deaths
Love
100
Martha went to what college?
What is Mount Sebastian College?
100
Soldiers don't always tell the ___ in their war stories.
What is the truth?
100
Kiowa wore carried these on his feet.
What are moccasins?
100
___ dies first in the Alpha Company.
Who is Ted Lavender?
100
Lieutenant Jimmy Cross loved a young nurse named..
Who is Martha?
200
Age of Lieutenant Cross.
What is 24 years old?
200
Veterans personal burdens were both physical and ...
What is emotional?
200
Nowman Bowker wore this around his neck.
What is a thumb?
200
Ted Lavender was shot in the __.
Where is in the head?
200
He flies his girlfriend into Vietnam for Holiday.
Who is Mark Fossie?
300
Average age of Alpha Company.
What is 19-20 years?
300
The men in Alpha Company would use this verb to sum up their experience in Vietnam.
What is humping?
300
What is one thing that Mitchell Sanders was known for carrying?
What is condoms, PRC-25 Radio, or brass knuckles?
300
He said, "I blame myself. And rightly so, because I was present." (page 179.)
Who is Jimmy Cross?
300
What did Cross keep in his mouth that made his think of his true love?
What is a smooth pebble?
400
Dave Jensen was most concerned about his personal..
What is hygiene?
400
He said this quote describing the theme of war stories, "Not a war for war stories, not talk for valor, and nobody wanted to know about the terrible stink." (page 150)
Who is Norman Bowker?
400
What Rat Kiley read.
What are comic books?
400
If the other one gets badly injured, the other makes sure he dies.
What is the pact between Strunk and Jensen?
400
Jimmy Cross and Martha reunited at a ___.
What is a class reunion?
500
Ted Lavender had 6-7 ounces of this.
What is premium dope?
500
Henry Dobbins says this quote about humping.
What is, "Well, it could be worse." (page 175)
500
Two things Lee Strunk always had on him.
What is a slingshot and tanning lotion?
500
This soldier steps on a mine and dies.
Who is Curt Lemons?
500
Mary Ann Belle is wearing this around her neck in the tent at the end of "Sweethearts of Song Tra Bong."
What is a necklace of tongues?