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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How high was the pile of wood made from the camp's fence?
(a) 45 feet.
(b) 50 feet.
(c) 60 feet.
(d) 20 feet.

2. When did Louis and Cynthia marry?
(a) May 20.
(b) May 25.
(c) May 30.
(d) May 17.

3. What was Louis put in charge of caring for in Naoetsu?
(a) A goat.
(b) A horse.
(c) A pig.
(d) A cow.

4. Where was the Omori POW camp located?
(a) Near Kyoto.
(b) Near Yokohama.
(c) Near Tokyo.
(d) Near Kobe.

5. What were the names of Cynthia's two boyfriends when she met Louis?
(a) Roger and Mac.
(b) Mac and Rick.
(c) Mickey and Mac.
(d) Mac and Mac.

6. What was the Naoetsu camp?
(a) A POW camp.
(b) A Kill All camp.
(c) A concentration camp.
(d) A slave labor camp.

7. Louis was taken to ____________ in Tokyo.
(a) A farm.
(b) A radio broadcasting station.
(c) A military office.
(d) A radio factory.

8. What was the American prisoners told not to seek?
(a) To go home on their own.
(b) To contact their families.
(c) Revenge.
(d) Their friends in other camp.

9. What did Harris spend the summer of 1944 doing according to Chapter 22?
(a) Planning an escape.
(b) Planning to take over the camp.
(c) Planning to kill guards.
(d) Planning to make contact with the Japanese resistance.

10. In what month and year does Chapter 25 begin?
(a) November,1944.
(b) October, 1944.
(c) December, 1944.
(d) September,1944.

11. What would Watanabe sometimes do after beating a prisoner?
(a) Go back and beat the ones treating his wounds.
(b) Transfer the prisoner to another camp.
(c) Go back and apologize.
(d) Go back and kill him.

12. What did the prisoners spot for the first time soon after Louis' trip outside the camp?
(a) A new Japanese battlecruiser.
(b) A Japanese tank.
(c) A small plane.
(d) A large plane.

13. What did the POW find as the walked down the mountain to the nearest village?
(a) American troops.
(b) A party.
(c) Japanese POWs.
(d) Ghost towns.

14. How was Watanabe "punished" for his mistreating of prisoners?
(a) He was sent to a Kamikaze unit.
(b) He was transferred to another prison and promoted.
(c) He was honored by the Emperor himself.
(d) He was sent to the front lines.

15. What did the women look like to Ken Marvin?
(a) Simple.
(b) Mainly old ladies.
(c) Goddess.
(d) Sublime.

Short Answer Questions

1. What granted Louis a space of time to let it go?

2. How often were local police departments told to report on their hunt for Watanabe?

3. What was Zamperini's family told about him according to Chapter 21?

4. How much money did the man who was proposing to resell earth moving equipment to the Philippines ask Louis for?

5. Why were the enlisted men taken outside the camp?

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