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The Things They Carried: Section 7, pages 219-246 - Quiz
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Explain the "language tricks" the GIs used, and tell how these tricks helped them to cope with the atrocities of the war.
In "The Lives of the Dead," Kiowa tells Tim that having guts and being scared are the same thing. Do you agree with his statement?
"The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream along with you..." Tell about a time when you experienced this, either reading or telling a story.
Tell about a time when you had to deal with a "Nick Veenhof."
Explain what Tim meant when he said that as a writer he wanted to save Linda's life.
The narrator said that the men kept the dead alive with stories. Do you believe this is possible?
Describe how you have felt while viewing a corpse at a funeral home. Was your experience similar to or different from Timmy's experience with Linda?
List the stories of the novel in chronological order. Explain why you chose that order.
Tell how you feel about the "book within a book" structure of this novel. Do you feel this was an effective technique?
Discuss the structure of this novel as a series of vignettes and short stories. Do you think any of these stories could have stood alone?
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