WorksheetsUnbroken Test Review
Total questions: 35
Worksheet time: 18mins
What does Louie do as a child?
steal everything he can eat
drink alcohol
pick up cigarettes and smoke them
all of these
Who motivates Louie to become a great runner?
Sylvia
Anthony
Phil
Pete
Who is the pilot of Superman?
Bill Harris
Russel Allen Phillips (Phil)
Francis Mac McNamara
Harry Brooks
What happens to Superman?
it saves the world
it crashes into the ocean
it is retired after too many combat missions
It is too beat up after receiving too much damage on a bombing raid
Which men survive the plane crash?
Louie and Phil
Louie, Harris, and Phil
Louie is the only survivor
Louie, Mac, and Phil
How many days are they stranded at sea?
100
50
33
47
What is the nickname of Kwajalein, the first POW camp Louie and Phil are sent to?
Land of the Dead
City of Light
Execution Island
No Man's Land
What was Matusuhiro Watanabe's nickname?
The Quack
Curley
The Butcher
The Bird
The B-24 bomber was nicknamed the...
Traveling Torch
Flying Coffin
Beautiful Bomber
Excellent Equalizer
Louie's nickname is...
the Torrance Tornado
The Torrance Torpedo
the Torrance Turtle
the Torrance Telegraph
What did one survivor do that shouldn't have been done?
Drink all the water
Use all the flares
eat all of the chocolate
puncture the raft with a knife
Why was Louie the focus of Watanabe's torture?
Watanabe could not break Louie's spirit.
Watanabe liked torturing someone who was famous.
Watanabe didn't know how else to get Louie to like him.
Louie was disrespectful and rude to Watanabe.
What disorder did Louie suffer from at the end of WWII?
anxiety
depression
PTSD
obsessions
What kind of a reputation does Louie have as a child?
athletic
mischevious
obedient
shy
What quest did Louie find to replace his lost Olympics?
becoming a B29 pilot
killing the Bird
bringing Tinker back to sanity
finding Phils' body
The Bird stopped coming into Louie's dreams after -
The USC track coach offered Louie a job training incoming freshmen.
Cynthia read a Bible passage to Louie about God being a healer.
Louie heard Billy Graham preach and remembered a promise he had made to God.
Phil called and forgave Louie for letting Mac die.
What offer does Radio Tokyo make to Louie?
read our propaganda & go home
read your letter on air & speak directly with your family
read our propaganda & get food/soft bedding
become an anchor & work for us
When Louie is surprisingly transferred to Naoetsu, who is the commanding officer at that camp?
The Quack - he wanted to perform experiments on an Olympic athlete
Kano - he wanted to minister to the Christian POWs
The Bird - he wanted to torture Louie and the other officers more
S..thead - he wanted to show off his promotion to Louie & the POWs who had mocked him at Ofuna
All of these events make Naoetsu the worst POW camp for Louie, except for...
vicious abuse by the Bird
slave labor in coal mines
experimental injections by the camp doctor
Louie's leg injury
What happens 2 days before the kill-all date of August 22 at Naoetsu?
3/4 of the POWs are executed.
B-29s land in the camp & begin carting away POWs.
Japanese citizens are brought in among the prisoners.
The POWs are allowed to bathe in the river & are set free by the camp guards.
Why is September 9, 1945 significant in the Zamperini family?
the new Mother's Day, when Louie comes home
the day Louie is released from Naoetsu
the day Louie marries Cynthia
the day Phil brings Louie home to Torrance
Why does Louie's marriage to Cynthia suffer?
The United States moves in to a Cold War.
He didn't deal with his PTSD before marrying her.
She is too young.
They move far away from their families.
Whom does Louie credit with saving him from his alcoholism and PTSD?
Pope John Paul II
Mother Theresa
Billy Graham
General Douglas MacArthur
How does the Bird escape capture all those years?
He fakes his identity and becomes a cop.
He hides in a secret room in his mother's
basement.
He runs to China & pretends to be an
insurance salesman.
He plants a dead body that looks like him on the mountain.
Where does Louie go in 1950?
to the '98 Olympics in Japan
to the California Victory Boys Camp
back to Sugamo Prison to forgive his guards and to shake their hands
to see the Graf Zepplin in Torrance
Possibly, why does Watanabe treat the POWs with such violence?
Allied forces killed his family.
He was denied rank advance & envies their strength.
He wants to punish the POWs for teasing him.
He gets a bonus for every POW he tortures
What constantly fills the skies over Japan in the last
days of the war?
B-24s
B-29s
B-25s
Zeroes
The text states,
“Flying the B-24, one of the world’s heaviest planes, was like wrestling a bear.”
This phrase is an example of…
simile
metaphor
irony
personification
“Superman was dying” is an example of…
metaphor
simile
irony
personification
Hillenbrand writes, “After World War II, former prisoners of the Japanese, known as Pacific POWs, came home. Physically, they were ravaged.”
What is the meaning of the word ravaged?
Hungry
Severely damaged
Liberated
Skinny
What literary device is used in this sentence: "The slave labor at Naoetsu was the kind of work that swallowed men’s souls, but the prisoners found ways to score little victories, so essential to their physical and emotional survival."
irony
metaphor
personification
simile
Which literary device is used in the following sentence: “Louie had chained himself, once again, to his tyrant.”?
foreshadowing
metaphor
allusion
personification
Which literary device is used in the following sentence: “During the war, the Bird had been unwilling to let go of Louie; after the war, Louie was unable to let go of the Bird.”?
personification
metaphor
symbolism
irony
