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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Louis discover after waking up in Chapter 13?
(a) That Mac ate all the chocolate.
(b) Mac caught a shark.
(c) Mac was dead.
(d) Mac drank all the water.

2. Where did Louis Zamperini live as a child?
(a) Italy and California.
(b) New York and California.
(c) New York and Boston.
(d) Italy and New York.

3. Louis Zamperini was assigned to ___________.
(a) Perth.
(b) Bikini Island.
(c) Midway.
(d) Oahu.

4. What were large contributors to the death rate of airmen during the early stages of the war according to Chapter 8?
(a) Bad training.
(b) Weather and mechanical problems.
(c) Faulty fuel.
(d) Bad weather forcecasts.

5. From whom did Louis Zamperini receive congratulations?
(a) Markus Rodenberger.
(b) President Roosevelt.
(c) Payton Jordan.
(d) Adolf Hitler.

6. What did Francis MacNamara start to do after some time in the raft?
(a) Tried to take charge.
(b) Cried that they were all going to die.
(c) Jumped in the water.
(d) Tried to start a fire.

7. What plane did Louis and the men in the raft signal?
(a) An American fighter.
(b) A British fighter.
(c) An American bomber.
(d) A Japanese fighter.

8. Whose control were Marshall and Gilbert Island under?
(a) American.
(b) German.
(c) Chinese.
(d) Japanese.

9. In what year did Germany and Japan start invading other countries according to Chapter 5?
(a) 1937.
(b) 1937.
(c) 1937.
(d) 1937.

10. How was Louis Zamperini as a child?
(a) He was a quiet and a loner.
(b) He was a troublemaker.
(c) He was quiet, but friendly.
(d) He was the clown of the class.

11. Where were Louis Zamperini and the remaining crew reassigned to after the bombing of Fanafuti?
(a) California.
(b) Marshall Island.
(c) Perth.
(d) Hawaii.

12. What did the men do in the raft to keep them warm?
(a) Huddled together.
(b) Put water in..
(c) Lit a fire.
(d) Put sea weed over themselves.

13. What did the small island Phil and Louis see turn out to be?
(a) A British ship.
(b) A Japanese recue aircraft.
(c) A Japanese ship.
(d) An American ship.

14. What did the guard who was kinder to Louis teach him?
(a) Japanese words.
(b) How to sneak in food.
(c) Japanese customs.
(d) How to talk with respect to guards.

15. What nickname did the U.S. servicemen give to Kwajalein?
(a) Death Island.
(b) Execution Island.
(c) Island of No Return.
(d) Dark Island.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long after the crash were the men classified as lost at sea?

2. Whose voice did Louis hear as he surfaced after the crash according to Chapter 12?

3. What camp were Phil and Louis transferred to in Chapter 19?

4. What was the nickname of Francis MacNamara?

5. What was the table Louis was brought to to be interrogated loaded with?

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