Unbroken Background Review

What is a narrative that proceeds in chronological order called?

What event prompted the United States to enter World War II?

How did Laura Hillenbrand depict an era decades before her time?

What is a reference in literature to a familiar person, place, event, or composition called?

How did the U.S. react to Japan's imperial efforts in the late 1930s?

What form of entertainment became increasingly popular after the 1927 development of “soundtracks”?

What event occurred in 1937, marking a significant escalation of Japanese aggression in China?

When was the Treaty of Versailles signed?

What is the name of the literary device that leave the reader in suspense at the end of a scene or episode?

What plot archetype do biographies like Unbroken often fulfill?

Which of the following is an example of an archetypal setting in Unbroken paired with its actual location?

When did Hitler annex the Anchluss and the Sudetenland?

What are facts in the form of numbers called?

Which of the following describes a secondary source?

During what time period do the main events of Unbroken take place?

What character archetype best describes the "servicemembers" in Unbroken?

What is the verbal representation of sensory experience, or language appealing to the senses, called?

What is a character designed to highlight the qualities of another character called?

Which of the following describes a primary source?

When did Japan invade China’s Manchuria?

What was the longest and most severe economic downturn in American history called?

How does Unbroken's preface begin?

What important Treaty did the Allies draw up at the end of World War I?

What policy did Britain and France adopt toward Hitler’s expansion until his invasion of Poland?

Which of the following individuals was a popular movie star in the early twentieth century?

Which of the following was one of Hitler’s personal views that drove his policy as chancellor?

What is the term for when corporations manufacture more goods than consumers can purchase?

What type of narrator does Unbroken have?

Immigrants from which region began to arrive in the U.S. in large numbers between 1880 and 1920?

Which of the following is NOT an example of a new electrical appliance available in the early twentieth century?

What is an account of a person’s life written or told by another person called?

What is the literary term for when an object or abstract idea is given human qualities?

What is a very brief story about an interesting, amusing, or strange event called?

What character archetype BEST describes "historical circumstance" in Unbroken?

When did the first modern Olympic Games take place?

What is a statement from a person recognized as an expert on an issue called?

What totalitarian government did Hitler establish once he became chancellor?

When did Black Tuesday, the rapid and severe drop in stock prices, occur?

What was the unemployment rate during the Great Depression?

What is the name of the literary device that uses subtle hints to create expectation or set up later developments?

What did President Harding call for after World War I?

What is the term for a system of fees placed on imported goods?

What word describes the U.S. foreign policy from the 1920s to the 1940s?

Which of the following was NOT a popular professional sport during the 1920s and 1930s?

What character archetype BEST describes the "wives/girlfriends" in Unbroken?

In what political party did an anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic movement form?

What pseudoscience believed that "hereditary" traits contributed to societal ills?

Where was the KDKA, first radio station in the U.S. broadcasted from?

Who was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean?

What types of sources do biographers use to write their books?

When did Hitler send troops into the Rhineland, defying the Treaty of Versailles?

What percentage of Americans still lived in poverty while the economy grew in the 1920s?

On what date did Pearl Harbor occur?

When did Adolf Hitler take office as chancellor of Germany?

By 1929, half of all American families owned what mass-produced item?

When did Hitler break the Munich Pact and seize all of Czechoslovakia?

What is the main character of a biography called?

Which of the following is a relevant universal idea in Unbroken?

Who was the first pilot to fly nonstop from New York to Paris?

What classic archetype does the main character of a biography typically fulfill?

What was the unprovoked attack against Jewish people called that served as a prelude to the Holocaust?

What did the Treaty of Versailles require of Germany?