"Good Form" by TIm O'Brien

What does O'Brien compare?

• Life and death

• Moral and immoral actions

• Real truth and story truth

• Golf and baseball

What did O'Brien say he saw on the trail near My Khe?

• A man die

• A napalm bombing

• A dead body

• A vision

What does O'Brien say he wants to accomplish by not being truthful?

• He wants to mess with the reader's mind.

• He wants to distort reality.

• He wants to display the craziness of Vietnam.

• He wants to elicit emotional truth.

What does O'Brien imagine his daughter asking him?

• How he survived the war

• If he had ever killed someone

• How the war affected him

• If he had ever seen someone die

How does O'Brien imagine his response to his daughter's question?

• He refuses to answer her question.

• He tells the truth then lies.

• He tells a lie then the truth.

• He chides her for asking.

What quotation from the text best supports the central idea of "Good Form" by Tim O'Brien?

• “It’s time to be blunt. I’m forty-three years old, true, and I’m a writer now, and a long time ago I walked through Quang Ngai Province as a foot soldier.”

• “What stories can do, I guess, is make things present.”

• “Here is the happening truth. I was once a soldier. There were many bodies, real bodies with real faces, but I was young then and I was afraid to look.”

• “I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why the story-truth is sometimes truer than the happening truth.”

What is the central idea of “Good Form” by Tim O’Brien?

• Story-truth considers how one feels when something happens, so authors should write about story-truths.

• Story-truth is often truer than happening-truth.

• What actually happened is most true, and so it is important for writers to document the happening-truth.

• Happening-truth is often truer than story-truth.

"It's time to BE BLUNT.

I'm forty-three years old, true, and I'm a writer now, and a long time ago I walked through Qnang Ngai Province as a foot soldier.

Almost everything else in this book is invented.

It's not a game. It's a form. Right here, now, as I invent myself, I'm thinking of all I want to tell you about why this book is written as it is."

What is the meaning of form as it is used in the excerpt?

• configuration

• shape

• version

• arrangement

Which statement best describes a claim that James Frey makes about the nature of truth in the text “A Million Little Pieces Revisited: Can the Truth Ever Set James Frey Free?” by Daniel Honan?

• Frey believes that the truth will set you free and should be boldly shared.

• Frey believes that fact and truth are one and the same and that writers are responsible for writing factual truth.

• Frey believes that truth is subjective and that truth and fact are not always the same.

• Frey believes that the definition of truth that others live by is wrong.

Which text evidence best supports a claim that James Frey makes about the nature of truth in the text “A Million Little Pieces Revisited: Can the Truth Ever Set James Frey Free?” by Daniel Honan?

• “The truth will set me free . . .”

• “I don’t care much about truth, or I don’t care about the definition of truth that most people live by.”

• “I don’t care for the definition of truth that most people live by.”

• “I think the truth is an incredibly subjective individual thing.”