Quiz  /  True or False: Daring Escapes

  • 1. 
    In 1979, two families successfully escaped East Berlin using a homemade hot air balloon.

  • True
  • False

  • 2. 
    Three Alcatraz prisoners orchestrated the prison’s only successful escape in 1962 only to be recaptured in San Francisco.

  • True
  • False

  • 3. 
    Henry Brown mailed himself from Virginia to Pennsylvania to escape enslavement.

  • True
  • False

  • 4. 
    In 1959 the 14th Dalai Lama disguised himself as a soldier to escape persecution in Tibet for safety in China.

  • True
  • False

  • 5. 
    Joaquín (“El Chapo”) Guzmán escaped from a prison in Mexico through a mile-long tunnel in 2015 and was never seen again.

  • True
  • False

  • 6. 
    A Jesuit priest named John Gerard escaped the infamous Tower of London in 1597 with help from a sympathetic prison guard.

  • True
  • False
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