Tim O'Brien

What quotation from the text best supports the central idea of "Good Form" by Tim O'Brien?

• “It’s time to be blunt. I’m forty-three years old, true, and I’m a writer now, and a long time ago I walked through Quang Ngai Province as a foot soldier.”

• “What stories can do, I guess, is make things present.”

• “Here is the happening truth. I was once a soldier. There were many bodies, real bodies with real faces, but I was young then and I was afraid to look.”

• “I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why the story-truth is sometimes truer than the happening truth.”

What is the central idea of “Good Form” by Tim O’Brien?

• Story-truth considers how one feels when something happens, so authors should write about story-truths.

• Story-truth is often truer than happening-truth.

• What actually happened is most true, and so it is important for writers to document the happening-truth.

• Happening-truth is often truer than story-truth.

What does O'Brien compare?

• Life and death

• Moral and immoral actions

• Real truth and story truth

• Golf and baseball

What did O'Brien say he saw on the trail near My Khe?

• A man die

• A napalm bombing

• A dead body

• A vision

What is most important to Tim O'Brien

• war stories

• story truth

• historical fiction

• all of the previous answers!

Tim O'Brien says he writes war stories for all of the following reasons EXCEPT

• to forget painful events

• to make things present

• to bring people back to life

• to feel again

Tim O'Brien considered running away to Mexico to escape the draft.

• True

• False

Where did Tim O'Brien work before heading to Vietnam?

• At the local college

• A Canadian fishing store

• A slaughter house (pig factory)

• McDonalds 

What does O'Brien say he wants to accomplish by not being truthful?

• He wants to mess with the reader's mind.

• He wants to distort reality.

• He wants to display the craziness of Vietnam.

• He wants to elicit emotional truth.

What does O'Brien imagine his daughter asking him?

• How he survived the war

• If he had ever killed someone

• How the war affected him

• If he had ever seen someone die