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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do the couple stay for the weekend in A Romantic Weekend?
(a) In a Marriott Hotel.
(b) At a friend of hers.
(c) In his grandmother's deserted apartment.
(d) At a B and B.

2. What does the father in the story Minor Heroism do for a living?
(a) He is an attorney.
(b) He is a used car dealer.
(c) He is an insurance salesman.
(d) He is a desk sergeant.

3. Who does Georgie pick up hitchhiking on the side of the road?
(a) A young woman escaping a horrible husband.
(b) A young woman who has been shot.
(c) A young man AWOL from the army trying to get to Canada.
(d) A young man running from the police.

4. What does the priest read while he is sitting at his mother's death bed?
(a) Wordsworth.
(b) Einstein.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) The Bible.

5. In Murderers, who runs the camp to which the narrator goes in New Jersey?
(a) Musicians.
(b) Camp counselors.
(c) Marsha Bernstein's father.
(d) WWII veterans.

Short Answer Questions

1. What can the boys in Murderers see from their perch on the water tank?

2. In River of Names, what is the narrator certain she does not want to do?

3. Where are the narrator and his passengers going in the story Rock Springs?

4. What does the couple decide to do after their first night together on their romantic weekend?

5. Why is the couple in A Romantic Weekend going away for the weekend?

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