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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do we know the narrator is the author, Tim O'Brien?
(a) The narrator gives part of the royalties to Ted Lavender's family
(b) Rat Kiley asks Tim to write a book
(c) The narrator says he wants to write a story about all of this
(d) Jimmy Cross gives him money

2. What medal did Norman Bowker almost win?
(a) Silver Star
(b) Gold Star
(c) Medal of Honor
(d) Purple Heart

3. What memory forced the men to switch from coffee to gin?
(a) The death of Ted Lavender
(b) The remorse of killing others
(c) The loss of Martha's love
(d) The deaths of men after they returned home

4. Who mimics the girl's dancing later that night, making Henry Dobbins angry?
(a) Rat Kiley
(b) Curt Lemon
(c) Tim
(d) Azar

5. Mitchell Sanders sent what in his letter to the Ohio Draft Board?
(a) Letters home
(b) A dead boy's thumb
(c) Body lice
(d) Photographs

Short Answer Questions

1. What activity does Norman Bowker do to avoid his troubles?

2. How does Jimmy ask Tim to portray him in the book he is writing?

3. Who gets into a fist fight?

4. Which item doubled as a body bag?

5. What happened when Curt Lemon walked into the tent?

(see the answer key)

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