English Final Exam

Question 1

Who carries: dope and tranquilizers?

Answer 1

Ted Lavender

Question 2

Who carries: a bible and a hatchet?

Answer 2

Kiowa

Question 3

Who carries: memories of all the dead men?

Answer 3

Tim O’Brien

Question 4

Who carries: responsibility for the platoon?

Answer 4

Jimmy Cross

Question 5

This character drives around in circles around the lake

Answer 5

Norman Bowker

Question 6

This character runs a hunting lodge near the Canadian border

Answer 6

Elroy Berdahl

Question 7

This character was paranoid and carried extra ammunition

Answer 7

Ted Lavender

Question 8

This character liked being nice to people

Answer 8

Henry Dobbins

Question 9

This character was distracted by his love for Martha

Answer 9

Jimmy Cross

Question 10

This character steps on a landmine and gets blown up into a tree

Answer 10

Curt Lemon

Question 11

When his draft notice arrives, Tim is working:

Answer 11

At a meatpacking plant

Question 12

Tim is offended by the woman who tells him she pities the baby water buffalo because

Answer 12

She fails to understand the story is a love story

Question 13

How does the story about Linda, Tim’s 9-year-old girlfriend, relate to the rest of the novel?

Answer 13

It shows how stories can briefly bring the dead back to life

Question 14

Why does Tim consider himself a coward for going to Vietnam?

Answer 14

He’s a pacifist, but he goes anyway

Question 15

A key reflection that Tim makes as he tells Norman Bowker’s story is that:

Answer 15

Courage is a matter of degree–it depends on the situation

Question 16

“To hump” means “to carry”

Answer 16

True

Question 17

The first lieutenant and field officer of O’Brien’s platoon is Ted Lavender.

Answer 17

False

Question 18

Lee Strunk and Dave Jensen get in a fight over drugs

Answer 18

False

Question 19

“We kept the dead alive with stories…it was a way of bringing body and soul back together.”

Answer 19

Tim O’Brien

Question 20

“All you can do is be nice. Treat them decent, you know?”

Answer 20

Henry Dobbins

Question 21

“He did not care one way or another about the war, and he had no desire to command…”

Answer 21

Jimmy Cross

Question 22

“The dentist couldn’t find any problem, but[he] kept insisting, so [he]…yanked out a…tooth”

Answer 22

Curt Lemon

Question 23

“Mellow, man. We got ourselves a nice mellow war today.”

Answer 23

Ted Lavender

Question 23

“There was no suicide note, no message of any kind. ‘[He didn’t want] to bother anybody”

Answer 23

Norman Bowker

Question 24

“Just came to me…the moral, I mean. Nobody listens….you got to listen to your enemy”

Answer 24

Mitchell Sanders

Question 25

How does Dave Jenson react to his fight with Lee Strunk?

Answer 25

He gets nervous and ends up breaking his own nose with a gun

Question 26

Curt Lemon is killed by:

Answer 26

a land mine/booby trap