Unbroken

Laura Hillenbrand
Further Study

Full Book Quiz

Further Study Full Book Quiz

1. Where does Louie grow up?

2. What kind of a reputation does Louie have as a child?

3. Who serves as Louie’s original running coach?

4. When Louie competes in the Olympics, where are those games held?

5. Where does Louie attend college?

6. In the military, what is Louie’s role on the flight crew?

7. What name do Louie’s crew members give to their plane?

8. After training, where does Louie’s crew wait for action?

9. What is the name of the doomed plane on which Louie, Phil, and Mac fly?

10. What is the type of plane on which Louie most commonly flies?

11. On the raft, what rationed provision does Mac consume?

12. What information do the men share during the raft journey?

13. What type of bird first lands on the raft?

14. What happens when a Japanese plane spots the men on the raft?

15. What else is on the wall when Louie carves his name into the cell wall in Kwajalein?

16. What former college acquaintance does Louie encounter at the Ofuna camp?

17. What is one of Bill Harris’s special skills?

18. What plan do Louie, Frank Tinker, and Bill Harris create to escape Ofuna?

19. After the first POW camp, Ofuna, to what location is Louie taken next?

20. What is the name of the Japanese corporal who abuses Louie and others at both Omori and Naoetsu?

21. Which of the following diseases does NOT afflict the POWs in the various camps?

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?

23. What is the nationality of most of the prisoners at Naoetsu when Louie arrives there?

24. What radio message confirms for Louie’s family that he did not die at sea?

25. How does Louie overcome his nightmares and alcohol addiction?

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