Worksheets"Louis Zamperini" Comprehension
Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 33mins
Louis Zamperini’s life was off to a rough start until __________ suggested he join the track team.
his mother
his 8th grade teacher
a police officer
his brother Pete
In the 1936 Olympics, Zamperini’s final lap time was impressive enough to earn him a meeting with…
President Roosevelt.
Jesse Owens.
Adolf Hitler.
Katharine Hepburn.
Why didn’t Zamperini get to compete in the 1940 Olympics in Tokyo?
He couldn’t afford a ticket to the tryouts.
The Olympics were canceled because of World War II.
He had already enlisted in the Army.
He missed the qualifying time by .03 seconds.
Upon deployment, what was Zamperini’s assignment?
bombardier on the B-24 Liberator
pilot on the B-19 Flying Fortress
navigator on the B-19 Flying Fortress
tail gunner on the B-24 Liberator
What happened to the chocolate bars?
A shark bit off the section of the raft that held the chocolate bars.
They melted in the hot sun and the liquid mixed with ocean water.
McNamara panicked and ate them all the first night.
An albatross stole them all.
For how long was Zamperini stranded at sea?
two weeks
33 days
47 days
two years
What happened when Zamperini and Phillips finally reached land?
They were immediately captured by the Japanese.
They found themselves alone on a desert island.
They were helped by a local tribe of natives.
They were greeted by German soldiers.
Why did Zamperini return to Japan when he was 81?
to confront his captors
to carry the Olympic torch
to visit Naoetsu
to search for Phillips
Find the sentence that reveals the nickname Zamperini earned in college.
On May 27, 1943, Zamperini and a crew of ten other men took off in Green Hornet to conduct a search for a missing aircraft and crew.
From there, he continued on to a running career at the University of Southern California where he earned the nickname “Torrance Tornado.”
Deployed to the Pacific island of Funafuti, he received the dreaded assignment of bombardier on the B-24 Liberator, a warplane so dangerous it was coined the “Flying Coffin.”
Find the sentence that reveals the location of Zamperini’s first deployment.
Deployed to the Pacific island of Funafuti, he received the dreaded assignment of bombardier on the B-24 Liberator, a warplane so dangerous it was coined the “Flying Coffin.”
Zamperini was transferred to Hawaii and assigned to another B-24, Green Hornet, notorious among the pilots as a defective lemon.
Zamperini would end up at Naoetsu Camp in northern Japan, enduring more starvation, disease, and unspeakable torture until Japan was liberated in late 1945.
Find one piece of text evidence that proves that Zamperini was an excellent runner.
Zamperini awoke to discover that McNamara had panicked and eaten all of the chocolate bars.
paving his way to the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, Germany
They fought off constant shark attacks and kept the raft afloat during storms.
