TTTC Notes, In the Field, Good Form, Field Trip

"By telling stories, you objectify your own experience. You separate it from yourself. You pin down certain ____________. You make up others.

Tim O'Brien includes two real books he has written in the chapter. When an author blends fiction and truth, what is real from invented reality, what do we call that?

• Mr. Mehta

• Metamorphosis

• Metafiction

• Metamind

His mother calls Norman _______________

• Sad

• Honest

• Quiet

• Shy

It is clear, through deductive analysis, that Norman Bowker suffered from

• Sadness

• PTSD

• ADHD

• Neuroses

What naturally occurring participation did the men have to "fight"?

Jimmy Cross had been trained to treat the men as__________

• Fools

• Units

• People

• Men

What sport was used as comparison in "In the Field"?

• Baseball

• Football

• Golf

• Tennis

What is strange about "the boy" searching for Billie's picture?

• She was Kiowa's girlfriend

• She was the boy's girlfriend

• She was not Kiowa's girlfriend

• She was not the boy's girlfriend

What colored mud was Kiowa covered with? (*More than one)

• Blue

• Green

• Brown

• Black

O'Brien wants us to know why _____________ is truer sometimes than ________________.

• real-truth/fake-truth

• what's real/what's fake

• story-truth/happening-truth

• war/peace