The Things They Carried Quiz 3
1. Bowker makes his most meaningful human contact at a
- home of a former sweetheart
- shit field in Vietnam
- hamburger drive in
- brothel in Japan
2. How does Kiowa die?
- he is shot and sinks into a field
- he steps on a land mine
- he commits suicide
- O'Brien throws a grenade at him
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