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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year does Chapter 1 begin?

2. How many squares of chocolate were the men on the raft supposed to have each day?

3. How did Louis try to signal the plane they saw?

4. What was lost during the crash?

5. Where was Phil sent to in Chapter 20?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where did Louis find himself?

2. What did Louis sign an agreement to do?

3. What was in the rafts?

4. Who was William Harris in Chapter 20?

5. How does the preface of "Unbroken" begin?

6. What happened to Mac in Chapter 16?

7. What devastated Louis according to Chapter 5?

8. What happened after 27 days on the raft according to Chapter 15?

9. What was Louis able to do in Chapter 12?

10. What was Louis overwhelmed by in Chapter 4?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the significance of post-traumatic stress disorder in war veterans from the Pacific Theater and why each veteran needed to find his own path.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the role that running and the Olympics had in Louis Zamperini's life.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the role of POW camps and the treatment received by the prisoners and what prisoners did in the camps.

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