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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. In the story White Horse, who arrives in the light green Mercedes to help the horse?
(a) A businessman.
(b) No one.
(c) A doctor.
(d) A vet.

2. What two children are left at the school house with the teacher during the blizzard?
(a) Jacob and Annie Smithson.
(b) John and Annie Lendorff.
(c) Jason and Alice Meyer.
(d) Johan and Alma Lindquist.

3. Who dies on the day of the narrator's story in Murderers?
(a) Melvin Bloom.
(b) Marsha Bernstein.
(c) Arnold Bloom.
(d) Harold Cohen.

4. What can the boys in Murderers see from their perch on the water tank?
(a) The New Jersey Turnpike.
(b) MIchigan Avenue.
(c) The Miracle Mile.
(d) The Brooklyn Navy Yard.

5. Who is telling the story of the first day?
(a) The teacher taking in a new student to her classroom.
(b) The mother looking back on taking her child to school.
(c) The narrator looking back on the first day of summer camp.
(d) The narrator looking back on the first day of kindergarten.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Irene and the children move when they leave Flagstaff?

2. What instructions does the speaker give in The Girl about eating?

3. What do most of the PFC and Spec4s carry with them?

4. In the story Emergency, how long has the narrator been working in the emergency room when his story begins?

5. In Testimony of Pilot, how does Lillian die?

(see the answer key)

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