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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. General Homma foresaw that American prisoners would need to move from Bataan. How many prisoners did he estimate would need evacuation?
(a) 25,000 prisoners.
(b) 100,000 prisoners.
(c) 60,000 prisoners.
(d) 40,000 prisoners.

2. How many Filipinos had fought on Bataan at the time of the surrender to the Japanese?
(a) 65,000 Filipinos.
(b) 75,000 Filipinos.
(c) 72,000 Filipinos.
(d) 68,000 Filipinos.

3. What is the principal island in the Philippines?
(a) Visayas.
(b) Mindinao.
(c) Luzon.
(d) Tatalan.

4. In what direction did the Rangers head on January 28?
(a) West.
(b) East.
(c) South.
(d) North.

5. Who refused to go into the air-raid shelters on December 14?
(a) C. C. Smith.
(b) Quentine Devore.
(c) Vernon Booth.
(d) Robert Pritchford.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where were the Bataan nurses sent before General King surrendered to the Japanese?

2. How many years had Eugene Nielsen been interred at Puerto Princesa Prison Camp?

3. What type of planes did the prisoners see after the air-raid alarm sounded on December 14?

4. How many Rangers were going on the rescue mission to Cabanatuan?

5. Where did Reed Shurtleff attend college?

(see the answer key)

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