Where was Louis Zamperini originally from?

• Torrance, CA
• Lincoln, NE
• Newark, NJ
• Lawrence, KS

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Louie was called into service on a __________ in the Pacific during World War II.

• aircraft carrier
• bomber crew
• tank crew
• transportation crew

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What happened when Louie and the pilot were finally nearing land after floating on the raft?

• captured by Japan
• captured by Soviets
• wind took them out to sea
• shot by Japanese plane

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What event did Louie break the high school and eventually state record in?

• 100 yard dash
• two mile
• Mile
• 800 

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What major event interfered with Louie's goal of going to and winning the 1940 Olympics in Tokyo?

• Atomic Bomb on Japan
• Politics
• War with Japan
• Death of Roosevelt

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Zamperini’s ______was constantly praying for her son beginning at a young age.

• brother
• father
• mother
• sister

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Louis’s ___ encouraged young Louie by saying, “If you can take it, you can make it.”

• mother
• brother Pete
• brother Sam
• father

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When Zamperini graduated high school he was the ______in United States high school history.

• best two miler
• best 800 runner
• fastest miler 
• fastest 100 runner

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Why did Louie refuse to do the second radio broadcast?

• He was really tired and hungry
• He went blind
• The Japanese wrote it themselves for propaganda
• He never agreed to do the first one

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What does Louie realize as to why he was not killed on Kwajalein?

• The Geneva Convention forbids the killing of famous people
• they forgot to execute him
• he was too beautiful to kill
• he was saved so they could use him as a propaganda tool
  

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