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Memory
Memory 2
Figurative Language
Vocabulary
SUPER Memory
100
What happens to Kiowa in Vietnam? A) Steps on a booby trap B) Sinks into muck field and drowns C) Commits suicide in a YMCA D) Gets trampled by hundreds of baby water buffalo
B) Sinks into muck field and drowns
100
What happened to Norman and where did it happen? A) Stepped on a booby trap in Vietnam B) Shot himself at home in his bedroom C) Choked on beer D) Hung himself in a YMCA
D) Hung himself in a YMCA
100
"That night when Kiowa got wasted, I sort of sank down into the sewage with him... Feels like I'm still in deep ****." This is an example of what? A) Simile B) Hyperbole C) Metaphor D) Alliteration
A) Simile
100
"Telling stories seemed a natural, inevitable process, like clearing the throat. Partly catharsis, partly communication..." What does CATHARSIS mean? A) Process of torturing B) Process of releasing and getting relief C) Process of ignoring D) Process of forgetting
B) Process of releasing and getting relief
100
When was "Speaking of Courage" written? A) 1975 B) 1976 C) 1980 D) 1970
A) 1975
200
What did O'Brien leave out of the original "Speaking of Courage?" A) Kiowa's death and the muck field B) Norman driving around town C) The made up name Paul Berlin D) O'Brien's hometown
A) Kiowa's death and the muck field
200
What did Norman complain about in O'Brien's first book "If I Die in a Combat Zone?" A) Bleeding-heart political parts B) Sappy animal rights parts C) Lack of good humor D) Lack of cute girls
A) Bleeding-heart political parts
200
What did O'Brien lose when he took out the muck field and Kiowa's death? A) Personification connection B) Metaphorical unity C) Simile bridge D) Hyperbole hole
B) Metaphorical unity
200
"Yet when I received Norman Bowker's letter, it occurred to me that the act of writing had led me through a swirl of memories that might otherwise have ended in paralysis or worse." What does PARALYSIS mean? A) Recovery B) Hyperness C) Surge of slow movement D) Inability to move
D) Inability to move
200
What book was O'Brien working on when he wrote "Speaking of Courage?" A) If I Die in a Combat Zone B) The Things They Carried C) Going After Cacciato D) Iowa Blues
C) Going After Cacciato
300
What did Norman's mother say about Norman? A) He was outgoing and loud B) He was a serious, brave boy C) He was a quiet boy D) He wasn't the brightest
C) He was a quiet boy
300
What ivy league did O'Brien attend? A) Princeton B) Yale C) Brown D) Harvard
D) Harvard
300
"To provide a dramatic frame, I collapsed events into a single time and place, a car circling a lake on a quiet afternoon in midsummer, using the lake as a nucleus around which the story would orbit." The following is an example of what? A) Metaphor B) Hyperbole C) Simile D) Personification
C) Simile
300
"At one point, he had enrolled in the junior college in his hometown, but the course work, he said, seemed too abstract, too distant, with nothing real or tangible at stake, certainly not the stakes of a war." What does ABSTRACT mean? A) An idea with no physical or concrete existence B) Existing in a material or physical form C) Able to flow easily
A) An idea with no physical or concrete existence
300
What did Norman order in the story "Speaking of Courage?" A) Mama burger, fries, and root beer B) McDonalds burger, onion rings, and root beet C) Large fries and large Coke D) Nothing - he sat there just talking to the intercom guy
A) Mama burger, fires, and root beer
400
Why did Norman write the letter to O'Brien? A) To blame O'Brien for Kiowa's death B) To laugh about old times C) To say he couldn't find meaningful use for his time D) To say that he hated Kiowa for giving Norman guilt
C) To say he couldn't find meaningful use for his time
400
What was the fake name O'Brien used for Norman? A) Thomas Rhodes B) Paul Berlin C) Jacob Caverly D) Matthew Fair
B) Paul Berlin
400
What is the term "bleeding-heart" an example of? A) Metaphor B) Simile C) Personification D) Hyperbole
A) Metaphor
400
"The letter covered seventeen handwritten pages, its tone jumping from self-pity to anger to irony to guilt to a kind of feigned indifference." What does FEIGNED mean? A) Genuine B) Simulated or pretended C) Confused D) Ignorant
B) Simulated or pretended
400
How did Norman's friends find Norman? A) Hanging from a basketball net by a jump rope B) Hanging in a closet C) Hanging from a jump rope attached to a water pipe D) Lying dead on the floor
C) Hanging from a jump rope attached to a water pipe
500
How many months did it take for Norman to drop out of junior college? A) 5 B) 8 C) 11 D) 3
B) 8
500
Where was O'Brien's hometown? A) Worthington, Minnesota B) Unnamed town in central Iowa C) New York City, New York D) Macon, Georgia
A) Worthington, Minnesota
500
What power did O'Brien say the field of muck had? A) Healing power B) Killing power C) Teaching power D) Slowing power
B) Killing power
500
"Although the structure remains, the piece has been substantially revised in some places by severe cutting, in other places by the addition of new material." What does SUBSTANTIALLY mean? A) Barely B) Not at all C) Greatly
C) Greatly
500
How did O'Brien transfer into the real world after the war? A) Stayed depressed, holed up in his room B) Was super happy and started his own business C) Indifferent and traveled a lot D) Gracefully into graduate school in Harvard
D) Gracefully into graduate school in Harvard