The Things They Carried Test | Final Test - Medium

Tim O'Brien
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 143 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Things They Carried Test | Final Test - Medium

Tim O'Brien
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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. What Army position did the narrator hold?
(a) Foot soldier
(b) Radio man
(c) Lieutenant
(d) Pilot

2. Which is NOT a way the men react to Rat Kiley's injury?
(a) Offer to write it up as an accident
(b) Calling him a coward
(c) Give him comic books to read
(d) Cheer him up about the hospitals in Japan

3. Who does Tim blame for his near-death experience?
(a) Mitchell Sanders
(b) Morty Phillips
(c) Bobby Jorgenson
(d) Rat Kiley

4. What is the person they meet doing in the middle of a burned house?
(a) Talking to the dead
(b) Dancing
(c) Crying
(d) Eating

5. What member of the platoon attempts to comfort Tim after he kills a man?
(a) Kiowa
(b) Rat Kiley
(c) Azar
(d) Lt. Cross

Short Answer Questions

1. Other than Kathleen and Tim, who else watched him get into the river?

2. Who does Rat Kiley accuse of whispering his name?

3. What event causes Tim to revise "Speaking of Courage," following Norman Bowker's advice?

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

5. What is the name of Tim's daughter?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Tim react to Bobby Jorgenson's failings as a medic?

2. What power do stories have for people dealing with death?

3. Explain who feels blame for Kiowa's death.

4. What is the main struggle for the narrator/author in the chapter "Good Form?"

5. Contrast the two times Tim was shot.

6. How is Norma Bowker's life before the war and after the war contrasted?

7. What was Tim's first experience with death?

8. What happens to Tim after he kills the man in the path with a grenade?

9. What is the purpose of the visit to the battlefield where Kiowa was killed?

10. Who does Tim go on a trip with and where do they go?

(see the answer keys)

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