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The Things They CarriedA Unit Review
By: Teri Hinrichs
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Review Jeopardy
About the Book Characters Important Quotes
The Story The Vietnam War
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Who is the author of The Things They Carried?
Category 1 – 10 points
ANSWER:Tim O’Brien
When was the novel first published?
Category 1 – 20 points
ANSWER:1990
Who is the narrator?
Category 1 – 30 points
ANSWER:Tim O’Brien
What is the setting of the novel?
Category 1 – 40 points
ANSWER: Vietnam and Massachusetts
Name 1 of the 3 symbols O’Brien uses in the novel.
Category 1 – 50 points
ANSWER:•The dead young Vietnamese soldier
•Kathleen•Linda
Who is the protagonist of the story?
Category 2 – 10 points
ANSWER:Tim O’Brien
Who is the lieutenant in charge of Alpha Company?
Category 2 – 20 points
ANSWER:Jimmy Cross
Who carries moccasins in order to walk silently?
Category 2 – 30 points
ANSWER:Kiowa
Who is the medic for Alpha Company?
Category 2 – 40 points
ANSWER:Bob “Rat” Kiley
Who is the first of Alpha Company to die?
Category 2 – 50 points
ANSWER:Ted Lavender
What is being discussed by the following lines:
“They carried the soldier’s greatest fear, which was the fear of blushing. Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to. It was what had brought them to the war in the first place, nothing positive, no dreams of glory or honor, just to avoid the blush of dishonor. They died so as not to die of embarrassment.”
Category 3 – 10 points
ANSWER:The emotional baggage that each soldier carried in addition to their
physical possessions
Who is being described in the following quote:
“He was a slim, dead, almost dainty young man of about twenty. He lay with one leg bent beneath him, his jaw in his throat, his face neither expressive nor inexpressive. One eye was shut. The other was a star-shaped hole.”
Category 3 – 20 points
ANSWER:The young Vietnamese soldier that
O’Brien killed
What event causes O’Brien to reveal:
“By telling stories, you objectify your own experience. You separate it from yourself. You pin down certain truths. You make up others. You start sometimes with an incident that truly happened, like the night in the shit field, and you carry it forward by inventing incidents that did not in fact occur but that nonetheless help to clarify and explain.”
Category 3 – 30 points
ANSWER:Kiowa’s death
What event leads O’Brien to reveal:
“I’d come to this war a quiet, thoughtful sort of person, a college grad, Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude, all the credentials, but after seven months in the bush I realized that those high, civilized trappings had somehow been crushed under the weight of the simple daily realities. I’d turned mean inside.”
Category 3 – 40 points
ANSWER:Jorgenson, the new medic, failed to
treat O’Brien competently, so he had planned to exact revenge
What is the significance of the following:
“[S]ometimes I can even see Timmy skating with Linda under the yellow floodlights. I’m young and happy. I’ll never die. I’m skimming across the surface of my own history, moving fast, riding the melt beneath the blades, doing loops and spins, and when I take a high leap into the dark and come down thirty years later, I realize it is as Tim trying to save Timmy’s life with a story.”
Category 3 – 50 points
ANSWER:At the end of the novel, Tim O’Brien tries to
make sense of who he is now through a childhood memory
Why does Ted Lavender take tranquilizers?
Category 4 – 10 points
ANSWER:Because he has a problem with nervousness
What is O’Brien’s summer job before the war?
Category 4 – 20 points
ANSWER:He works in a meatpacking factory
How is Curt Lemon killed?
Category 4 – 30 points
ANSWER:He steps on a mine
When the platoon burns a village and then finds a young girl dancing,
who mocks her?
Category 4 – 40 points
ANSWER:Azar
Why did O’Brien’s relationship with Linda end?
Category 4 – 50 points
ANSWER:She died of a brain tumor
During what years was the Vietnam War fought?
Category 5 – 10 points
ANSWER:1964-1975
About how many Americans were killed in the war?
Category 5 – 20 points
ANSWER:About 58,000
What was the average age for soldiers in the war?
Category 5 – 30 points
ANSWER:23 years old
What happened on May 4, 1970?
Category 5 – 40 points
ANSWER:Kent State Massacre
What is significant about the date January 27, 1973?
Category 5 – 50 points
ANSWER:Considered the official end of the
Vietnam War
AND THE WINNER IS…
Webliography
Web Site Name
http://www.vietnam-war.info/
Google Images
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