"The Ghost Soldiers"

1. Where was Tim wounded the first time he was shot?
2. What was it about Rat’s care of Tim that took courage?
3. Where was Tim’s second wound?
4. How long did the medic take to get Tim during the battle?
5. What did Tim devote a lot of time to once he "could think straight"?
6. What does Tim say you shouldn’t have to feel about being wounded?
7. How did his feelings about his wound and his recovery affect his feelings about Jorgenson?
8. After his second wound, where was Tim deployed?
9. How did his new assignment change his relationship to the other guys in his platoon?
10. What did Tim have to do, "three times a day, no matter what"?
11. After his confrontation with Jorgenson, what did Tim feel had changed about himself after "seven months in the bush"?
12. How did Mitchell Sanders reply to Tim’s request.
13. How did Azar respond?
14. What did Tim become as he watched Jorgenson reacting to the noisemakers?
15. What did the guys use next against Jorgenson?
16. How does Azar change the game they are playing against Jorgenson?
17. When he was wounded, what did Tim keep trying to tell Jorgenson, but couldn’t?
18. What did Jorgenson do after firing at the white sandbag?
19. What did Azar do to Tim "as an afterthought"?
20. What happens between Jorgenson and Tim afterwards?

"Night Life"

1. What do the soldiers mean by "living the night life"?
2. Who did Tim get this story from?
3. What happened to Rat after five or six days?
4. What did he keep talking about?
5. What usually happened around midnight?
6. What did Rat start to picture after awhile?
7. How does Rat describe "this whole war"?
8. What did Rat do to himself the next morning?
9. How does Cross say he’ll explain what happened?
10. What did the guys say to cheer him up about being in Japan?

"The Lives of the Dead"

1. What can stories do?
2. What can happen in a story sometimes?
3. What did the soldiers do with the body they found in the bombed out village?
4. How long had Tim been in the war at that point?
5. How did Tim respond to what the soldiers did?
6. What did Kiowa say about Tim’s actions?
7. Who did the old man’s body remind Tim of?
8. How old were Tim and Linda when they went out on their first date?
9. What did Linda wear on her head?
10. What did Ted Lavendar do every morning?
11. What did Linda say to Tim after she was dead?
12. What did Nick do one day in the classroom?
13. What did the class find out about Linda?
14. Who walked her home that afternoon?
15. What can you steal in a story? What can happen?
16. How could the soldiers keep the dead alive?
17. How did Tim feel about seeing Linda’s body in the casket?
18. What was Tim’s "worst day at the war"?
19. What had become "a secret meeting place" for Tim and Linda?
20. What does Linda say being dead is like?