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Unbroken Test Review

Total questions: 35

Worksheet time: 18mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What does Louie do as a child?

a)

steal everything he can eat

b)

drink alcohol

c)

pick up cigarettes and smoke them

d)

all of these

2.

Who motivates Louie to become a great runner?

a)

Sylvia

b)

Anthony

c)

Phil

d)

Pete

3.

Who is the pilot of Superman?

a)

Bill Harris

b)

Russel Allen Phillips (Phil)

c)

Francis Mac McNamara

d)

Harry Brooks

4.

What happens to Superman?

a)

it saves the world

b)

it crashes into the ocean

c)

it is retired after too many combat missions

d)

It is too beat up after receiving too much damage on a bombing raid

5.

Which men survive the plane crash?

a)

Louie and Phil

b)

Louie, Harris, and Phil

c)

Louie is the only survivor

d)

Louie, Mac, and Phil

6.

How many days are they stranded at sea?

a)

100

b)

50

c)

33

d)

47

7.

What is the nickname of Kwajalein, the first POW camp Louie and Phil are sent to?

a)

Land of the Dead

b)

City of Light

c)

Execution Island

d)

No Man's Land

8.

What was Matusuhiro Watanabe's nickname?

a)

The Quack

b)

Curley

c)

The Butcher

d)

The Bird

9.
Why did Louie refuse to do the second radio broadcast?
a)
He was really tired and hungry
b)
He went blind
c)
The Japanese wrote it themselves for propaganda
d)
He never agreed to do the first one
10.
What orders were passed down to be carried out on August 22?
a)
the order of the rose
b)
the feed-all order
c)
the chronological order of events
d)
the kill-all order
11.

The B-24 bomber was nicknamed the...

a)

Traveling Torch

b)

Flying Coffin

c)

Beautiful Bomber

d)

Excellent Equalizer

12.

Louie's nickname is...

a)

the Torrance Tornado

b)

The Torrance Torpedo

c)

the Torrance Turtle

d)

the Torrance Telegraph

13.

What did one survivor do that shouldn't have been done?

a)

Drink all the water

b)

Use all the flares

c)

eat all of the chocolate

d)

puncture the raft with a knife

14.

Why was Louie the focus of Watanabe's torture?

a)

Watanabe could not break Louie's spirit.

b)

Watanabe liked torturing someone who was famous.

c)

Watanabe didn't know how else to get Louie to like him.

d)

Louie was disrespectful and rude to Watanabe.

15.

What disorder did Louie suffer from at the end of WWII?

a)

anxiety

b)

depression

c)

PTSD

d)

obsessions

16.

What kind of a reputation does Louie have as a child?

a)

athletic

b)

mischevious

c)

obedient

d)

shy

17.

What quest did Louie find to replace his lost Olympics?

a)

becoming a B29 pilot

b)

killing the Bird

c)

bringing Tinker back to sanity

d)

finding Phils' body

18.

The Bird stopped coming into Louie's dreams after -

a)

The USC track coach offered Louie a job training incoming freshmen.

b)

Cynthia read a Bible passage to Louie about God being a healer.

c)

Louie heard Billy Graham preach and remembered a promise he had made to God.

d)

Phil called and forgave Louie for letting Mac die.

19.

What offer does Radio Tokyo make to Louie?

a)

read our propaganda & go home

b)

read your letter on air & speak directly with your family

c)

read our propaganda & get food/soft bedding

d)

become an anchor & work for us

20.

When Louie is surprisingly transferred to Naoetsu, who is the commanding officer at that camp?

a)

The Quack - he wanted to perform experiments on an Olympic athlete

b)

Kano - he wanted to minister to the Christian POWs

c)

The Bird - he wanted to torture Louie and the other officers more

d)

S..thead - he wanted to show off his promotion to Louie & the POWs who had mocked him at Ofuna

21.

All of these events make Naoetsu the worst POW camp for Louie, except for...

a)

vicious abuse by the Bird

b)

slave labor in coal mines

c)

experimental injections by the camp doctor

d)

Louie's leg injury

22.

What happens 2 days before the kill-all date of August 22 at Naoetsu?

a)

3/4 of the POWs are executed.

b)

B-29s land in the camp & begin carting away POWs.

c)

Japanese citizens are brought in among the prisoners.

d)

The POWs are allowed to bathe in the river & are set free by the camp guards.

23.

Why is September 9, 1945 significant in the Zamperini family?

a)

the new Mother's Day, when Louie comes home

b)

the day Louie is released from Naoetsu

c)

the day Louie marries Cynthia

d)

the day Phil brings Louie home to Torrance

24.

Why does Louie's marriage to Cynthia suffer?

a)

The United States moves in to a Cold War.

b)

He didn't deal with his PTSD before marrying her.

c)

She is too young.

d)

They move far away from their families.

25.

Whom does Louie credit with saving him from his alcoholism and PTSD?

a)

Pope John Paul II

b)

Mother Theresa

c)

Billy Graham

d)

General Douglas MacArthur

26.

How does the Bird escape capture all those years?

a)

He fakes his identity and becomes a cop.

b)

He hides in a secret room in his mother's

basement.

c)

He runs to China & pretends to be an

insurance salesman.

d)

He plants a dead body that looks like him on the mountain.

27.

Where does Louie go in 1950?

a)

to the '98 Olympics in Japan

b)

to the California Victory Boys Camp

c)

back to Sugamo Prison to forgive his guards and to shake their hands

d)

to see the Graf Zepplin in Torrance

28.

Possibly, why does Watanabe treat the POWs with such violence?

a)

Allied forces killed his family.

b)

He was denied rank advance & envies their strength.

c)

He wants to punish the POWs for teasing him.

d)

He gets a bonus for every POW he tortures

29.

What constantly fills the skies over Japan in the last

days of the war?

a)

B-24s

b)

B-29s

c)

B-25s

d)

Zeroes

30.

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…

a)

simile

b)

metaphor

c)

irony

d)

personification

31.

“Superman was dying” is an example of…

a)

metaphor

b)

simile

c)

irony

d)

personification

32.

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?

a)

Hungry

b)

Severely damaged

c)

Liberated

d)

Skinny

33.

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."

a)

irony

b)

metaphor

c)

personification

d)

simile

34.

Which literary device is used in the following sentence: “Louie had chained himself, once again, to his tyrant.”?

a)

foreshadowing

b)

metaphor

c)

allusion

d)

personification

35.

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.”?

a)

personification

b)

metaphor

c)

symbolism

d)

irony