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Lost in the Pacific, 1942 TEST REVIEW

Total questions: 30

Worksheet time: 40mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which castaway was the VIP, the world-famous pilot, war hero, & race car driver?

a)

Eddie Rickenbacker

b)

Hans Adamson

c)

Bill Cherry

d)

Jim Whittaker

2.

Which castaway was the VIP's escort & friend?

a)

Eddie Rickenbacker

b)

Hans Adamson

c)

Bill Cherry

d)

Jim Whittaker

3.

Which castaway was the B-17 copilot and ran a construction business in California?

a)

Eddie Rickenbacker

b)

Hans Adamson

c)

Bill Cherry

d)

Jim Whittaker

4.

Which castaway was the B-17 pilot and raised hogs on a ranch in Texas?

a)

Eddie Rickenbacker

b)

Hans Adamson

c)

Bill Cherry

d)

Jim Whittaker

5.

Which castaway was the other enigneer, dropped out of high school, & wanted to be a photographer?

a)

John DeAngelis

b)

James Reynolds

c)

Alex Kaczmarczyk

d)

Johnny Bartek

6.

Which castaway was the B-17 radioman and grew up on a ranch in California?

a)

John DeAngelis

b)

James Reynolds

c)

Alex Kaczmarczyk

d)

Johnny Bartek

7.

Which castaway was the B-17 engineer, loved music & worked in a gas station in Connecticut?

a)

John DeAngelis

b)

James Reynolds

c)

Alex Kaczmarczyk

d)

Johnny Bartek

8.

Which castaway was the B-17 navigator and drove a truck in Pennsylvania?

a)

John DeAngelis

b)

James Reynolds

c)

Alex Kaczmarczyk

d)

Johnny Bartek

9.

Which event happened FIRST in the book?

a)

The octant is beat up in the crew's first attempt to take off from Hickam Airfield in Hawaii.

b)

Running low on fuel, the crew braces for impact in the Pacific Ocean.

c)

Captain Cherry receives orders that he will be transporting Eddie Rickenbacker on a top secret mission.

d)

The crew makes several attempts to determine their location in the Pacific including "boxing the compass."

10.

Which event happened LAST in the book?

a)

The octant is beat up in the crew's first attempt to take off from Hickam Airfield in Hawaii.

b)

Running low on fuel, the crew braces for impact in the Pacific Ocean.

c)

Captain Cherry receives orders that he will be transporting Eddie Rickenbacker on a top secret mission.

d)

The crew makes several attempts to determine their location in the Pacific including "boxing the compass."

11.

Which event happened next in the book after Captain Cherry receives orders that he will be transporting Eddie Rickenbacker on a top secret mission?

a)

The octant is beat up in the crew's first attempt to take off from Hickam Airfield in Hawaii.

b)

Running low on fuel, the crew braces for impact in the Pacific Ocean.

c)

Captain Cherry announces to the crew of the B-17 that they are lost.

d)

The crew makes several attempts to determine their location in the Pacific including "boxing the compass."

12.

Which event happened FIRST in the book?

a)

The men hold a Catholic burial service for Alex & roll him into the sea.

b)

The men feast on a seabird that Eddie catches & use its intestines to catch 2 fish.

c)

Jim Whittaker sadly watches the B-17 sink in the Pacific Ocean from his cramped yellow life raft.

d)

Alex admits to drinking salt water.

13.

Which event happened LAST in the book?

a)

The men hold a Catholic burial service for Alex & roll him into the sea.

b)

The men divide the first orange into 8 pieces deciding to ration the portions.

c)

Jim Whittaker sadly watches the B-17 sink in the Pacific Ocean from his cramped yellow life raft.

d)

The men feast on a seabird that Eddie catches & use its intestines to catch 2 fish.

14.

Which event happened next after Jim Whittaker sadly watches the B-17 sink in the Pacific Ocean from his cramped yellow life raft?

a)

The men hold a Catholic burial service for Alex & roll him into the sea.

b)

The men divide the first orange into 8 pieces deciding to ration the portions.

c)

Alex admits to drinking salt water.

d)

The men feast on a seabird that Eddie catches & use its intestines to catch 2 fish.

15.

True or False: All castaways survived the impact of the crash. ch. 4, pg. 42

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

16.

True or False: The men had plenty of food and water with them in the rafts. ch. 4, pgs. 46-47

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

17.

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)

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

18.

True or False: At sea, when men grew desperate enough, they had been known to eat one another to survive. (ch. 7)

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

19.

True or False: All 8 men were eventually rescued and survived their ordeal of being lost in the Pacific.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

20.

True or False: Rickenbacker NEVER completed his top secret mission.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

21.

True or False: Whittaker, DeAngelis, & Reynolds's raft makes it to land & they are eventually rescued.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

22.

The setting of this nonfiction novel primarily (mainly) takes place...

a)

at Hickam Airfield in Hawaii in 1942

b)

at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii in 1941

c)

on Canton Island in 1942

d)

in the middle of the Pacific Ocean in 1942

23.

The crew faced all of the following challenges in the book except....

a)

cramped conditions in the life rafts

b)

dehydration (extreme lack of water)

c)

starvation (extreme hunger)

d)

a serious injury caused by a shark attack

24.

Where did the crew of 8 men take off from? ch. 1, pg. 11

a)

Australia

b)

Hawaii

c)

Japan

d)

Canton Island

25.

The men baited the fishing hook with all of the following EXCEPT...

a)

an orange peel

b)

bird intestines

c)

wadded or balled up paper

d)

flesh from their own skin

26.

Who was the FIRST castaway to admit to drinking salt water?

a)

Alex Kaczmarczyk

b)

Johnny Bartek

c)

James Reynolds

d)

John DeAngelis

27.

Later in the story, the men also faced all of the following challenges EXCEPT...

a)

a decline in morale

b)

water filling their life rafts

c)

an attack by a humpback whale

d)

the rafts were deflating

28.

"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?

a)

considerable

b)

limited

c)

abundant

d)

delicious

29.

"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?

a)

gaunt

b)

hallucination

c)

stupor

d)

delirium

30.

Rickenbacker and Bartek are rescued by...

a)

being hoisted into the backseat of the kingfisher seaplane.

b)

climbing into the nearby USS Hillo.

c)

rowing to nearby land and islanders helping to radio Funafuti.

d)

by being tied down to the right and left wing of a kingfisher seaplane.