The Things They Carried Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

Tim O'Brien
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The Things They Carried Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

Tim O'Brien
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many monks are there to help the men with camp?
(a) 2
(b) 12
(c) 6
(d) 1

2. What does Rat Kiley do to treat Lee Strunk's injury?
(a) Asks the men to donate blood
(b) Caterizes the wound
(c) A tourniquet and morphine
(d) Gives him a cigarette and tells him not to worry

3. Where does Jimmy Cross stay while he visits Tim?
(a) Tim's guest room
(b) He lives next door
(c) A hotel
(d) The nearby army base

4. What do the men call plane rides home to America?
(a) Liberty lifts
(b) Chopper catch
(c) Home runs
(d) Freedom birds

5. What does Dave Jensen do with the pistol?
(a) He breaks his own nose
(b) He captures a Viet Cong
(c) He gives it to Less Strunk as a peace offering
(d) He shoots down a bird

6. Which man cut off the thumb of a dead Viet-Cong boy?
(a) Norman Bowker
(b) Kiowa
(c) Mitchell Sanders
(d) Rat Kiley

7. 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

8. What personality does Curt Lemon put out for others to see according to the narrator?
(a) A de facto leader, always reminding the guys of SOP
(b) A big prankster, always pulling tricks on members of the platoon
(c) A scared young man, always taking drugs to stay relaxed
(d) A tough soldier, always puffing himself up

9. Who began to tense up in the line waiting for an examination?
(a) Curt Lemon
(b) Tim O'Brien
(c) Rat Kiley
(d) Dave Jense

10. Who gets into a fist fight?
(a) Dave Jensen and Lee Strunk
(b) Lee Strunk and Mitchell Sanders
(c) Rat Kiley and Mitchell Sanders
(d) Dave Jensen and Henry Dobbins

11. What is another name for a land mine?
(a) Kaboom
(b) Sizzling Sally
(c) Toe Popper
(d) Last Step

12. When was Ted Lavender killed outside of the village Than Khe?
(a) First week of August
(b) Middle of April
(c) Middle of August
(d) First week of April

13. What happens to Mary Anne Bell in the end, according to Rat Kiley?
(a) She and Mark Fossie get married on the beach
(b) She goes out and never returns, becoming a part of Vietnam
(c) She was killed by a land mine
(d) She takes a helicopter back home

14. What does Dave Jensen do when he snaps?
(a) He shoots his gun into the air
(b) He loses his ability to talk
(c) He screams and climb a tree
(d) He curls into a ball and cries

15. Where does he stop before crossing the border?
(a) Niagra Falls
(b) At a campsite
(c) Tip Top Lodge
(d) His Aunt's house

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did the monks take a special liking to and call "Soldier Jesus?"

2. What year does Tim graduate college?

3. How does Kiowa describe Ted Lavender's death?

4. What is a war story NOT about?

5. Who visited the author, Tim O'Brien, to talk?

(see the answer keys)

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