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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Dave Jensen ask Lee Strunk?
(a) Is everything square between them?
(b) Does he have any morphine?
(c) Can he help him?
(d) Can he have a cigarette?

3. Where does Tim consider running to?
(a) England
(b) Canada
(c) France
(d) Mexico

4. Who visited the author, Tim O'Brien, to talk?
(a) Mitchell Sanders
(b) Kiowa
(c) Jimmy Cross
(d) Rat Kiley

5. 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) Jimmy Cross gives him money
(c) Rat Kiley asks Tim to write a book
(d) The narrator says he wants to write a story about all of this

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Kiowa teach to Rat Kiley?

2. How does Tim join the army?

3. Because he is a coward, what does Tim do?

4. Where is the platoon at?

5. Where is Martha a student?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain your thoughts on this quote: "I was a coward. I went to war."

2. How does Lee Strunk react to his injury?

3. How were Lieutenant Cross's tears misinterpreted after the death of Ted Lavender?

4. Why is the story of Rat Kiley killing the baby water buffalo a "love" story?

5. Who did you think was the victim as you read the chapter, and who did you think was the victim once you finished it? Why?

6. Why do Jimmy Cross and Tim O'Brien stop drinking coffee, and what do they switch to?

7. How did things start when Mary Anne first arrived, and how did they change?

8. What caused Henry Dobbins to rule out a career as a minister?

9. Why did the men have to see the dentist?

10. Give an example of a stark contrast between how the men normally behave, and how the war changes their behavior.

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