1. Why does Azar give the Vietnamese boy a chocolate bar? Is the story sweet like O’brien claims? Why or why not? 2. How does Mitchell Sanders get back at his draft board?

3. How were the checker games between Bowker and Dobbins different from war?

4. Describe how the “old poppa-san” helped the men and their relationship with him.

5. How was the war boring?

6. What does O’brien’s daughter Kathleen advise him to do?

7. What does Norman wish for?

8. What did Ted Lavender adopt? What did Azar do to it? What was Azar’s excuse?

9. According to O’brien what are the stories for?

Dialectical Journal (Include a dialectical journal for Chapter 2 Love)

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What object do the men think of as a trifle?

What does the term fiend not mean as it is used in the passage? a) beast b) brute c) fanatic d) savage

On november 17, 1968, football fans across the united states sat glued to their televisions. a close game between two top teams—the new york jets and the oakland raiders—was being broadcast. when the jets pulled ahead with only fifty seconds remaining, viewers went wild. but then, just as the raiders were bringing the ball across midfield, the game disappeared from the screen! in its place, a previously scheduled children's movie, heidi, started playing. callers flooded the tv network's phone lines, but it was too late. the raiders scored two touchdowns in the very final moments—touchdowns that were unseen by all but west coast viewers. as a result of the interrupted event, dubbed "the heidi game," television networks began delaying their regularly scheduled programs until football games had ended.