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WorksheetsLost in the Pacific, 1942 TEST REVIEW
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 40mins
Which castaway was the VIP, the world-famous pilot, war hero, & race car driver?
Eddie Rickenbacker
Hans Adamson
Bill Cherry
Jim Whittaker
Which castaway was the VIP's escort & friend?
Eddie Rickenbacker
Hans Adamson
Bill Cherry
Jim Whittaker
Which castaway was the B-17 copilot and ran a construction business in California?
Eddie Rickenbacker
Hans Adamson
Bill Cherry
Jim Whittaker
Which castaway was the B-17 pilot and raised hogs on a ranch in Texas?
Eddie Rickenbacker
Hans Adamson
Bill Cherry
Jim Whittaker
Which castaway was the other enigneer, dropped out of high school, & wanted to be a photographer?
John DeAngelis
James Reynolds
Alex Kaczmarczyk
Johnny Bartek
Which castaway was the B-17 radioman and grew up on a ranch in California?
John DeAngelis
James Reynolds
Alex Kaczmarczyk
Johnny Bartek
Which castaway was the B-17 engineer, loved music & worked in a gas station in Connecticut?
John DeAngelis
James Reynolds
Alex Kaczmarczyk
Johnny Bartek
Which castaway was the B-17 navigator and drove a truck in Pennsylvania?
John DeAngelis
James Reynolds
Alex Kaczmarczyk
Johnny Bartek
Which event happened FIRST in the book?
The octant is beat up in the crew's first attempt to take off from Hickam Airfield in Hawaii.
Running low on fuel, the crew braces for impact in the Pacific Ocean.
Captain Cherry receives orders that he will be transporting Eddie Rickenbacker on a top secret mission.
The crew makes several attempts to determine their location in the Pacific including "boxing the compass."
Which event happened LAST in the book?
The octant is beat up in the crew's first attempt to take off from Hickam Airfield in Hawaii.
Running low on fuel, the crew braces for impact in the Pacific Ocean.
Captain Cherry receives orders that he will be transporting Eddie Rickenbacker on a top secret mission.
The crew makes several attempts to determine their location in the Pacific including "boxing the compass."
Which event happened next in the book after Captain Cherry receives orders that he will be transporting Eddie Rickenbacker on a top secret mission?
The octant is beat up in the crew's first attempt to take off from Hickam Airfield in Hawaii.
Running low on fuel, the crew braces for impact in the Pacific Ocean.
Captain Cherry announces to the crew of the B-17 that they are lost.
The crew makes several attempts to determine their location in the Pacific including "boxing the compass."
Which event happened FIRST in the book?
The men hold a Catholic burial service for Alex & roll him into the sea.
The men feast on a seabird that Eddie catches & use its intestines to catch 2 fish.
Jim Whittaker sadly watches the B-17 sink in the Pacific Ocean from his cramped yellow life raft.
Alex admits to drinking salt water.
Which event happened LAST in the book?
The men hold a Catholic burial service for Alex & roll him into the sea.
The men divide the first orange into 8 pieces deciding to ration the portions.
Jim Whittaker sadly watches the B-17 sink in the Pacific Ocean from his cramped yellow life raft.
The men feast on a seabird that Eddie catches & use its intestines to catch 2 fish.
Which event happened next after Jim Whittaker sadly watches the B-17 sink in the Pacific Ocean from his cramped yellow life raft?
The men hold a Catholic burial service for Alex & roll him into the sea.
The men divide the first orange into 8 pieces deciding to ration the portions.
Alex admits to drinking salt water.
The men feast on a seabird that Eddie catches & use its intestines to catch 2 fish.
True or False: All castaways survived the impact of the crash. ch. 4, pg. 42
TRUE
FALSE
True or False: The men had plenty of food and water with them in the rafts. ch. 4, pgs. 46-47
TRUE
FALSE
True or False: America awoke to news articles announcing Rickenbacker's disappearance, but there was no mention of any of the other men. (ch. 6)
TRUE
FALSE
True or False: At sea, when men grew desperate enough, they had been known to eat one another to survive. (ch. 7)
TRUE
FALSE
True or False: All 8 men were eventually rescued and survived their ordeal of being lost in the Pacific.
TRUE
FALSE
True or False: Rickenbacker NEVER completed his top secret mission.
TRUE
FALSE
True or False: Whittaker, DeAngelis, & Reynolds's raft makes it to land & they are eventually rescued.
TRUE
FALSE
The setting of this nonfiction novel primarily (mainly) takes place...
at Hickam Airfield in Hawaii in 1942
at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii in 1941
on Canton Island in 1942
in the middle of the Pacific Ocean in 1942
The crew faced all of the following challenges in the book except....
cramped conditions in the life rafts
dehydration (extreme lack of water)
starvation (extreme hunger)
a serious injury caused by a shark attack
Where did the crew of 8 men take off from? ch. 1, pg. 11
Australia
Hawaii
Japan
Canton Island
The men baited the fishing hook with all of the following EXCEPT...
an orange peel
bird intestines
wadded or balled up paper
flesh from their own skin
Who was the FIRST castaway to admit to drinking salt water?
Alex Kaczmarczyk
Johnny Bartek
James Reynolds
John DeAngelis
Later in the story, the men also faced all of the following challenges EXCEPT...
a decline in morale
water filling their life rafts
an attack by a humpback whale
the rafts were deflating
"Now they had no food and a PALTRY ration of water to show for their efforts that night." pg. 99 Which word is a synonym for PALTRY as it is used in the sentence above?
considerable
limited
abundant
delicious
"During the day, they lay in a _____, hiding from the sun and praying for night to fall." Which vocabulary word best completes the sentence from the book?
gaunt
hallucination
stupor
delirium
Rickenbacker and Bartek are rescued by...
being hoisted into the backseat of the kingfisher seaplane.
climbing into the nearby USS Hillo.
rowing to nearby land and islanders helping to radio Funafuti.
by being tied down to the right and left wing of a kingfisher seaplane.
