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WorksheetsThe Things They Carried Ch. 7 ("How to Tell a True War Story")
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
What is Rat Kiley's real name?
James Riley
Matt Riley
Bob Riley
Murray Riley
Why is Rat Kiley angry at his buddy's sister at the start of the chapter?
She sent the soldiers cookies that were spoiled.
Rat dated her before the war, and she broke up with him in a letter.
He wrote to her after her brother died, and she never wrote back.
She told her brother, Rat's friend, that she hated his Halloween costume.
How does Rat feel about the first letter he writes?
He is unsure that he has accurately conveyed his feelings
He feels his writing is personal and touching
He is nervous about how the recipient will judge his letters
He hopes the recipient will not figure out that he is lying
According to the narrator, "A true war story is never______"
moral
happy
pleasant
perfect
Mitchell Sanders tells a story about...
A soldier who shot himself in the foot to get out of his unit
A unit of soldiers driven mad by the sounds of the jungle; in a paranoid frenzy they fire on an imaginary enemy
A lieutenant who blames himself for the death of his soldier, and eventually goes mad
a girl who writes to her soldier every day; she is devastated when her "Dear John" dies in combat
In Mitchell Sanders' story of the six-man patrol in the mountains, those men hear:
a roaring fire
mysterious music
wild animals in the night
Vietcong soldiers marching
What did Curt Lemon and Rat Kiley play with?
a ball of twine
a smoke grenade
a dog
a Frisbee
According to the narrator, what did Curt Lemon believe was killing him?
the sunlight
the moon
the mud
the buffalo
The narrator says that when he learned of Curt Lemon's death, he found it difficult...
to eat
to sleep
to mourn
to move on
All of these details were present when Curt Lemon dies EXCEPT...
a bright light
white blossoms
a yellow chicken
moss and vines
(Choose all the answers that apply.)
According to the narrator, you can "tell a true war story" if:
it is never moral.
it embarrasses you.
it is difficult to separate what happened from what SEEMED to happen.
it cannot be believed.
What does the narrator mean by this quote: "A true war story, if truly told, makes the stomach believe" (O'Brien 74).
True war stories can only be about heroes and their deeds.
The war story must make the reader feel sick to his/her stomach, if it is to be believable.
War stories must contain facts about what the soliders eat while on the battlefield.
If the reader can feel true emotions from the story, they can believe everything the story tells them.
To whose sister does Rat Kiley write the letter in the beginning of the chapter? (We only find this out after this soldier dies.)
Daryll Strawberry
Curt Lemon
Don Lemon
Mitchell Sanders
Twenty years later, what wakes up the narrator when he dreams about Curt Lemon?
a bright light
Dave Jensen singing "Lemon Tree"
the image of a white bone
a loud boom
What does Tim, the narrator, call the story of Curt Lemon that he tells to audiences twenty years after the war?
a love story
a war story
a sad story
a fictional story
