Where Have You Gone Charming Billy?

Who is the author of "Where Have You Gone Charming Billy"?

• John Steinbeck
• Bernard Malamud
• Jon Williams
• Tim O'Brien

From what point of view is the story told?

• The main character
• First person
• Third person
• The commanding officer

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This character steps on a land mine, then he dies of a heart attack.

• Billy Watkins
• Paul Berlin
• Tim O'Brien
• Stephen Crane

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What of the author's biographical information is the basis for ...Charming Billy?

• He is a college graduate
• He was drafted into the Vietnam War
• He wrote The Things They Carried
• He went to school in St. Paul Minnesota

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To be stealth is... 

• to be sly, secretive; to travel undetected
• to spread thin; to exhaust
• to stand motionless or very still
• to be alone and unhappy

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What is the purpose of "characterization"?

• To attack a person's character
• To give literary perspective to the story
• To reveal the relationships of characters
• To create a believable character

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What is historical context?

• The techniques the author uses to reveal and develop the story's setting
• The events that motivated Paul Berlin to be afraid on his first day in Vietnam
• the social, cultural, and political issues of the time and place of the story's setting
• The cultural bias and racism that motivates the war in Vietnam

Who is Paul Berlin?

• The main character
• He drops dead from a heart attack
• He is the author of the story
• He is the narrator of the story

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What is the main internal conflict in the story?

• The North Vietnamese are trying to take over South Vietnam
• The weather in Nam is unbearably hot and muggy
• The soldiers are afraid they will die in Nam
• The soldiers have come across an active spider hole

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 Where does Paul pretend to be?

• Shopping at the grocery store with his girlfriend
• In his high school locker room 
• Back in the barracks with Billy
• He pretends to be camping with his father

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