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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What personal item did Tim "bury" in the river?

2. Which is NOT a way the men react to Rat Kiley's injury?

3. What was the young man trying to show Kiowa before "the whole field blew up around them?"

4. What did the man on trail wear on his feet?

5. What couldn't Tim bring himself to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. Contrast the two times Tim was shot.

2. What happens to Tim after he kills the man in the path with a grenade?

3. Explain who feels blame for Kiowa's death.

4. What does Tim invent about the man he killed?

5. What is the purpose of the visit to the battlefield where Kiowa was killed?

6. What is the main struggle for the narrator/author in the chapter "Good Form?"

7. What two types of truth are there for the author and reader?

8. How did the men recover Kiowa's body?

9. How do Henry Dobbins and Azar disagree about the girl's motive to dance?

10. How does Tim react to Bobby Jorgenson's failings as a medic?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain Lieutenant Cross's responsibility or perceived responsibility in the various deaths of his men. How does he react to each one? Do his actions live up to his words and thoughts of improvement as a leader?

Essay Topic 2

Identify and analyze how we can tell the author has cleaned up or edited the story in one of the following cases: Curt Lemon going trick-or-treating on Halloween, the death of Kiowa, the story of Morty Phillips, the story of the sweetheart of Song Tra Bong. What additional details can the reader assume from the information contained in the text? What was likely to be the 'truth' ?

Essay Topic 3

Chronicle the beginning, growth, and ultimate end of the one of the following relationships: Curt Lemon/Rat Kiley; Dave Jensen/Lee Strunk. Be sure to explain how major and minor events affected the relationship, and how the surviving party handled the loss of a friend.

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