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

2. How does Charles Bad Holy MacLeod die?

3. Where does the narrator of Lawns work?

4. In Murderers, who runs the camp to which the narrator goes in New Jersey?

5. Five years after her husband dies, with what is the priest's mother suffering?

Short Essay Questions

1. Before she dies, what story does Margaret tell Evie and Lydia that change their lives?

2. Who is Vopotik in the story Helping?

3. Where is the priest going at the end of Departures, and where has he been? How is he traveling?

4. What does G.R. ask Cody after he hears Cody's story of his near accident off the mountain that day?

5. What are some of the superstitious things the soldiers carry with them, and what is the most unusual of them?

6. In the short story Aunt Granny Lith, who is Aunt Granny Lith?

7. What inspiration does Gunther in Men Under Water get about his next screenplay after visiting Acid Rain? Who does he find waiting for him at his home when he and the narrator pull up to his house?

8. Where are the soldiers stationed in The Things They Carried, and who are the main characters?

9. In the story Rules of the Game, who is Lau Fo?

10. What news does the narrator receive about Sparky Smith shortly after her move from Fort Niagara?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Susan Power entitled her story about Margaret Many Wounds' death Moonwalk. Why did she use this title? How does the title mean more than one thing in the context of the story?

Essay Topic 2

In the story Dog Heaven, the author has created two children and a dog who live in a work of adults involved in the military. The narrator therefore focuses the story on the elements of childhood most recognized by people growing up. Discuss three of those elements and how they help the reader to relate to the story and to the narrator as a child.

Essay Topic 3

In his story The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien differentials between the physical things the soldiers carried on their backs and those they carry in their hearts and minds. Contrast and compare the physical and emotional things the men carried and how each affect a soldier.

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