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Unbroken
Laura Hillenbrand
Study Guide
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Summary
Plot Overview
Summary & Analysis
Part One, Preface – Chapter 1
Chapters 2 – 3
Chapters 4 – 5
Part Two, Chapters 6 – 7
Chapters 8 – 9
Chapters 10 – 11
Part Three, Chapters 12 – 13
Chapters 14 – 15
Chapters 16 – 17
Part Four, Chapters 18 – 19
Chapters 20 – 21
Chapters 22 – 23
Chapters 24 – 25
Chapters 26 – 27
Chapters 28 – 29
Chapters 30 – 31
Chapters 32 – 33
Part Five, Chapters 34 – 35
Chapters 36 – 37
Chapters 38 – 39
Epilogue
Characters
Character List
Louie
Pete
Phil
The Bird
Main Ideas
Themes
Motifs
Symbols
Key Facts
Quotes
Important Quotes Explained
Further Study
Context
Full Book Quiz
Study Questions
Suggestions for Further Reading
Writing Help
How to Write Literary Analysis
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1. Where does Louie grow up?
San Diego, CA
New York, NY
Des Moines, IA
Torrance, CA
2. What kind of a reputation does Louie have as a child?
Athletic
Mischievous
Obedient
Shy
3. Who serves as Louie’s original running coach?
His father
His brother
His teacher
His running idol
4. When Louie competes in the Olympics, where are those games held?
New York
Tokyo
Berlin
London
5. Where does Louie attend college?
USC
Stanford
Berkeley
Utah
6. In the military, what is Louie’s role on the flight crew?
Pilot
Navigator
Engineer
Bombardier
7. What name do Louie’s crew members give to their plane?
B-24 Bomber
American Dream
Super Man
Oahu
8. After training, where does Louie’s crew wait for action?
Washington state
San Diego
Mexico
Hawaii
9. What is the name of the doomed plane on which Louie, Phil, and Mac fly?
Japanese Bombshell
Green Hornet
Batman
Lois Lane
10. What is the type of plane on which Louie most commonly flies?
B-24
A-42
710
B-29
11. On the raft, what rationed provision does Mac consume?
Water
Rice
Beans
Chocolate
12. What information do the men share during the raft journey?
Descriptions of Louie’s mother’s cooking
Their experiences with the plane crash
Their fears about dying
Their dreams of visiting Japan
13. What type of bird first lands on the raft?
Seagull
Vulture
Albatross
Cardinal
14. What happens when a Japanese plane spots the men on the raft?
The crew continues flying.
The crew drops provisions.
The crew tries to rescue the men.
The crew repeated fires at the men on the raft.
15. What else is on the wall when Louie carves his name into the cell wall in Kwajalein?
The names of other servicemen
English translations of some Japanese phrases
A map of Japan
A prediction about the atomic bomb
16. What former college acquaintance does Louie encounter at the Ofuna camp?
His running coach
His English professor
His roommate
A Japanese friend
17. What is one of Bill Harris’s special skills?
Imitating the guards’ voices
Sleeping standing up
Photographic memory
Night vision
18. What plan do Louie, Frank Tinker, and Bill Harris create to escape Ofuna?
To poison the guards and free all prisoners
To run away and commandeer a plane
To steal the guards’ uniforms and escape in disguise
To trick Jimmie Sasaki into freeing them
19. After the first POW camp, Ofuna, to what location is Louie taken next?
A radio station, where he is offered the chance to live
A POW camp outside Tokyo
The western side of Japan
Back to Kwajalein
20. What is the name of the Japanese corporal who abuses Louie and others at both Omori and Naoetsu?
The Quack
Jimmie Sasaki
The Bird
Kawamura
21. Which of the following diseases does NOT afflict the POWs in the various camps?
Shingles
Dysentery
Beriberi
Scurvy
22. In the later years of the war, what type of Allied plane begins to be seen in the skies over Tokyo and later Naoetsu?
B-29
B-11
B-24
B-42
23. What is the nationality of most of the prisoners at Naoetsu when Louie arrives there?
American
British
Australian
Canadian
24. What radio message confirms for Louie’s family that he did not die at sea?
Jimmie Sasaki’s message to them
Phil’s message to his girlfriend, Cecy
A propagandist recording Louie makes in Tokyo
A military spies report of having seen Louie in a POW camp
25. How does Louie overcome his nightmares and alcohol addiction?
By a sudden religious conversion experience in a tent
Through a gradual process of counseling
Through membership in Alcoholics Anonymous
By confronting the Bird face-to-face
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