Directions:  Answer each of the following questions in complete sentences.

 

Enemies

 

1.                  What was the supposed cause of Lee Strunck and Dave Jensen’s fistfight?

 

2.                  What happens to Lee Strunck’s nose?

 

3.                  Mentally, what happens to Dave Jensen after the fight?

 

Friends

 

1.                  Describe the pact Lee Strunck and Dave Jensen made with each other?

 

2.                  What happened to Lee and how did Dave respond?

 

3.                  Reread the last line of this story on pg. 66.  Explain what this line means.

 

How To Tell a True War Story

 

1.                  Why and to whom does Rat write a letter?

 

2.                  What does a war story not do?  What does a war story do?

 

3.                  Describe what happened to Curt Lemon.

 

4.                  After Rat tells his story, on pg. 85, the narrator says, “it wasn’t a war story.  It was a love story.”  Explain what he means by this.