Show:
"The Things They Carried"
"How to Tell A True War Story"
"On the Rainy River"
"Enemies", "Friends", and "The Dentist"
"Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong"
100
Throughout the chapter “The Things They Carried”, this character who is continuously revisited in Lieutenant Jimmy Cross’ thoughts is:
Who is Martha?
100
Rat Kiley and Curt Lemon play catch with this.
What is a smoke grenade?
100
In this chapter, Tim O'Brien hides his draft notice in this.
What is a wallet?
100
This item is at the center of a fight between Dave Jensen and Lee Strunk.
What is a jackknife?
100
Before joining Alpha Company, this soldier was assigned to a small medical detachment in mountains west of Chu Lai.
Who is Rat Kiley?
200
This character is shot in the head and killed.
Who is Ted Lavender?
200
Curt Lemon steps on this and dies.
What is a mine?
200
This was Tim O'Brien's summer job before the Vietnam War.
What is working at a meatpacking factory?
200
This soldier broke another soldier's nose.
Who is Dave Jensen?
200
This soldier flies his girlfriend to Vietnam.
Who is Mark Fossie?
300
Martha plays this sport.
What is volleyball?
300
In the story Mitchell Sanders tells, this person asks the six-man patrol for an explanation about their use of firepower. They answer by saying nothing and walking away.
Who is the colonel?
300
The "Rainy River" is the border between these two countries.
What is the United States of America and Canada?
300
If one gets badly injured, the other will make sure he dies.
What is the pact between Jensen and Strunk?
300
These soldiers were described by Tim O'Brien as being "secretive and suspicious, loners by nature".
Who are the Green Berets, or "Greenies?"
400
Jimmy Cross and Martha reunite at this event.
What is a college reunion?
400

"In a true war story, if there's a moral at all, it's like the thread that makes the cloth. You can't tease it out. You can't extract the meaning without unraveling the deeper meaning."

How is this metaphor different from the metaphor, "War is hell."?

400
This historical event referred by Tim is directly linked to the drafting of young men into the army.
What is the attack on the USS Maddox in the Gulf of Tonkin?
400
This soldier faints when he is called to see the dentist.
Who is Curt Lemon?
400
This person criticizes Mark Fossie by saying he "is in a place where he doesn't belong."
Who is Mary Anne Bell?
500
The meaning of the title "The Things They Carried" is heightened when the narrator shares that all men in Alpha Company carried these:
What are ghosts?
500
These two details turned out to be fictional in Mitchell Sander's "true war story."
What is the glee club? and What are the chimes?
500
Tim refers to this person when he says that his story is a "small gesture of gratitude twenty years overdue".
Who is Elroy?
500
This character creates or adds to the conflict (sometimes unintentionally) that the protagonist faces.
What is the antagonist?
500
Michell Sanders criticizes Rat Kiley's storytelling because of Rat's habit of doing this.
What is pausing the story and adding his opinion?