The Things They Carried Review Quiz#canfield

How do Martha and Jimmy Cross feel about each other?

• They hate each other

• She loves him but he doesn't love her

• He loves her but she doesn't love him

• They love each other

Which soldier carries drugs?

• Rat Kiley

• Mitchell Sanders

• Kiowa

• Ted Lavender

What does "a hard vocabulary to contain a terrible softness" mean?

• The men have a hard exterior and a soft interior to keep the pain hidden, to survive emotionally

• The men have a vulgar vocabulary among themselves

• The men have a scholarly vocabulary

• It doesn't mean anything

What are freedom birds?

• The American Bald Eagle

• Helicopters

• The Baltimore Ravens

• Pelicans

Why does Jimmy burn Martha's letters and pictures?

• She's spurned him and he no longer loves her

• Thinking of her is his weakness and he feels guilty about another soldier's death

• Mitchell Sanders stole them from him and defiled them

• He did it accidentally

When Jimmy Cross throws away the good-luck pebble, what does that symbolize?

• Death

• The end of his love for her

• That pebbles make for silly good luck charms

• The end of his thoughts of home and comfort

What does Jimmy end up telling Martha when they meet after the war?

• That he hates her

• That the war was fun and he wants to do it again

• That he loves her and his fantasy of tying her to the bed and touching her knee

• That they should get married and have kids

What is it that Jimmy doesn't want O'Brien to mention in the story

• We don't know because O'Brien didn't tell us

• His feelings about Martha

• His guilt over Lavender's death

• That he was a bad lieutenant

What is strange about Azar's reaction to the one-legged little boy that comes by?

• He kicks the little boy and tells him to leave

• He gives him chocolate but feels bad that the guy who shot him ran out of ammo

• He starts crying and hugs the little boy

• He ignores the little boy completely

What was calming about playing checkers in comparison to being in a war?

• Checkers makes the men think of home

• Checkers is a better game than war

• Checkers allow the men to get out their aggression

• War is not well-ordered and rational. Checkers has rules and a clear winner and war does not.