The Things They Carried Section 1

What does First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carry?

• Letters from his mother

• Letters from a girl named Martha

• Letters from his brother

• Letters from a priest

What do the soldiers call carrying something?

• To haul it

• To bump it

• To drag it

• To hump it

Which man does O’Brien tell died multiple times, very casually?

• Mitchell Sanders

• Lee Strunk

• Ted Lavender

• Jimmy Cross

What was the good-luck charm sent to Jimmy Cross?

• A pebble

• A rabbit’s foot

• A cross

• A lock of hair

What happens to Strunk when he goes to check the tunnel?

• He is stabbed by a Viet Cong

• The tunnel collapses, but he makes it out

• The tunnel collapses and crushes him

• He gets claustrophobic and can’t do it

What does Norman Bowker, “a very gentle person”, carry?

• A bag of teeth

• A human scalp

• A human thumb

• A human eyeball

What did Jimmy Cross do after his man was shot in the head?

• He burned the letters and photographs that he carried

• He burned the letters and photographs that the dead man carried

• He wrote a letter to the man’s mother and then burned it

• He burned all of the soldiers’ private possessions

What happened to the woman Jimmy Cross loved?

• She got married and had four children

• She got married but her husband was killed in an accident

• She never married and became a nurse

• She lost her mind and was put into a mental facility

What did Mitchell Sanders mail to the USO?

• An envelope of his body lice

• An envelope of his toenail clippings

• An envelope with a dirty pair of socks

• An envelope full of his tears

How did Tim O’Brien come to join the military?

• He joined ROTC in college and enlisted after college

• He enlisted after college

• He was drafted during college and deferred until he graduated

• He was drafted a month after graduating