The Things They Carried Test | Final Test - Easy

Tim O'Brien
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The Things They Carried Test | Final 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. What color clothes was the man wearing when Tim killed him?
(a) Black
(b) Red
(c) Green
(d) Camouflage

2. How do the men in the platoon treat Tim when they run into him at the supply command?
(a) They ignore him because they all thought he died
(b) They treat him politely and ask him for favors
(c) They treat him distantly, because he isn't one of them anymore
(d) They greet him and treat him as if nothing happened

3. What is not a phrase used by the men to describe the dead?
(a) Roasted peanut
(b) Crunchie munchie
(c) Cracker jack
(d) Crispy critter

4. Other than Kathleen and Tim, who else watched him get into the river?
(a) A woman carrying a basket
(b) A young child eating
(c) A young man hauling rice
(d) An old man farming

5. How many soldiers are said to be in the platoon?
(a) 22
(b) 18
(c) 10
(d) 5

6. How old was Tim when he first dealt with death?
(a) 24
(b) 9
(c) 19
(d) 16

7. The man Tim killed had a hole the shape of what where an eye was supposed to be?
(a) A circle
(b) A crescent moon
(c) A heart
(d) A star

8. How does Rat Kiley deal with the mission at first?
(a) By talking non stop
(b) By counting as high as he can
(c) By remaining silent
(d) By killing all the bugs

9. In Tim's imagination, what village is the man he killed from?
(a) Than Khe
(b) My Khe
(c) Tra Bong
(d) Saigon

10. Who helps Tim spook Bobby Jorgenson out on patrol?
(a) Mitchell Sanders
(b) Azar
(c) Henry Dobbins
(d) Morty Phillips

11. How did Rat Kiley tease Tim to keep him out of shock?
(a) He made jokes about Tim dressing in drag
(b) He pretended Tim had been pregnant
(c) He quoted from his medical manual in a pompous voice
(d) He sang songs as he dressed the wound

12. What time of day was it when Tim killed the man on the trail?
(a) Dusk
(b) Afternoon
(c) Dawn
(d) Midnight

13. Which feeling does the narrator not admit to about the war?
(a) Grief
(b) Sadness
(c) Guilt
(d) Responsibility

14. What question does Tim's daughter ask him?
(a) Did you lose your best friend in war?
(b) Did you have a girlfriend in Vietnam?
(c) Did you ever kill anyone?
(d) Did you ever get shot?

15. What is wrong with the field that Lt. Cross selects as the campsite that night?
(a) It's a graveyard
(b) It's crawling with venomous snakes
(c) It's infested with large bugs
(d) It's where the village keeps their sewage

Short Answer Questions

1. What part of the story is Tim's own?

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

3. Who is the most "spooked" in the end?

4. What was wrong with the village the men come upon in "Style?"

5. What is Tim trying to save with a story?

(see the answer keys)

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