The Things They Carried

In the vignette "Enemies", why did Dave Jensen and Lee Strunk start fighting?

• a disagreement

• a missing jackknife

• a missing gun

What pact did two soldiers make in "Friends"?

• That there were no hard feelings

• That they would share rations

• That if one got badly injured, the other would kill him

Why was Dave Jensen relieved that Lee Strunk died in the helicopter?

• Because he did not have to back out on the pact

• Because he did not like Lee Strunk

• Because Strunk would have to return to the war

What topic was conspicuously absent in Martha's letters?

• college

• the war

• her daily routine

Where was Tim working when he found out he was going to Vietnam?

• a men's clothing store

• a gun shop

• a meatpacking plant

• the Peace Corps office

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Tim claimed that he was a coward because he -

• went to war

• hid during a battle

• didn't get enough medals

• hated to see dead Vietnamese

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Rat Kiley shot which of the following animals in the knee, ear, hump, flanks, and mouth?

• an adult elephant

• a baby water buffalo

• a snake

• a squid

Who went with Tim years later to visit the place of Kiowa's death?

• Norman Bowker

• Jimmy Cross

• his son

• his daughter

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In the chapter "Style," the men in Tim's company went to a burned down village and saw -

• a pile of burning children

• a small group of orphaned girls sitting in a circle

• two orphaned boys trying to rebuild their hut

• a girl of about fourteen dancing

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Why had the men been fired upon in the area where Kiowa died?

• Jimmy Cross exercised poor judgment

• a soldier used a flashlight to show someone a picture of his girlfriend

• central command was unaware of the nature of the site

• all of these

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