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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who dies on the day of the narrator's story in Murderers?
(a) Melvin Bloom.
(b) Harold Cohen.
(c) Marsha Bernstein.
(d) Arnold Bloom.

2. What two children are left at the school house with the teacher during the blizzard?
(a) Johan and Alma Lindquist.
(b) Jason and Alice Meyer.
(c) Jacob and Annie Smithson.
(d) John and Annie Lendorff.

3. What do Gunther and the narrator do in the back yard when the men have left?
(a) They drink until they pass out.
(b) They go diving in the swimming pool.
(c) They make their plan for their movie.
(d) They take a nap in the sun.

4. How old is the new county school teacher in Wickedness?
(a) Twenty five.
(b) Sixteen.
(c) Thirty nine.
(d) Eighteen.

5. Who becomes deaf playing drums in a band in the story Testimony of Pilot?
(a) Radcleve.
(b) Lillian's brother.
(c) The narrator's younger brother.
(d) The narrator of the story.

Short Answer Questions

1. As A Vintage Thunderbird opens, who are the people driving from Virginia to New York?

2. In All the Way in Flagstaff, what does William want to do when he grows up?

3. What do Connie and Arnold find they are both listening to on the radio at the same time?

4. Whose music does Dzia-Dzia hear while he sits at the other end of the kitchen table from Michael?

5. In The Things They Carried, how does Ted Lavendar die?

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