The Things They Carried pg.59-110

What does Dave Jensen do to Lee Strunk?

• Breaks his jackknife

• Break his nose

• Steals his canteen

• Burns his girlfriend's letters

What caused the fight?

• A missing jackknife

• a missing canteen

• missing letters

• Strunk insulted Jensen

What does Jensen do a few nights after the fight?

• Sets booby-traps around his camp

• Abandons his own post

• Breaks his own nose

• Writes a letter to his girlfriend

What happens to Lee Strunk after he and Jensen become friends?

• He steps on a mortar round and loses his leg

• He is hit by enemy fire

• Hi is transferred to another unit

• He burns a village to the ground

What is Rat Kiley's real name?

• James Kiley

• Richard Kiley

• Murray Kiley

• Bob Kiley

How does Rat feel about the first letter he writes?

• He is unsure that he has accurately conveyed his feelings

• He is nervous about how the recipient will judge his letters

• He feels his writing is personal and touching

• He hopes the recipient will not figure out that he is lying

According to the narrator, "A true war story is never______"

• Moral

• Happy

• Perfect

• Pleasant

Mitchell Sanders tells a story about...

• A soldier who shot himself in the foot to get out of his unit

• A lieutenant who blames himself for the death of his soldier, and eventually goes mad

• A unit that is driven mad by the sounds of the jungle; in a paranoid frenzy they fire on an imaginary enemy

• a girl who writes to her soldier every day; she is devastated when her "Dear John" dies in combat

What did Curt Lemon and Rat Kiley play with?

• A dog

• A roll of twince

• A discarded Frisbee

• A smoke grenade

According to the narrator, what did Curt Lemon believe was killing him?

• The sunlight

• The mud

• The moon

• The buffalo