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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Navy men use to sound the half hours of each day at Cabanatuan?

2. What was the least desirable of all the Cabanatuan work details?

3. Where did Bill Nellist grow up?

4. Who was the most reluctant prisoner to leave the camp?

5. What did Tommie Thomas build in his daydreams at Cabanatuan?

Short Essay Questions

1. What extensive underground developed that regularly smuggled goods into the camp at Cabanatuan?

2. What did Captain Pajota suggest as cover for the Rangers as they wriggled to their positions in the fields?

3. Describe what some of the prisoners were doing moments before the Rangers began the raid.

4. How did Nellist remove a metal fragment from Rounsaville?

5. What would happen to a prisoner if he would slip a root or a pod of beans into his personal gunny sack?

6. How did Teddy Richardson get the padlock open on the front gate?

7. How was the Platero schoolhouse transformed into a makeshift hospital?

8. Describe the weed named cogon.

9. How was Pajota planning for the rescue mission?

10. What concerns did Mucci have about the guerrillas as they readied to attack Cabanatuan?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Using examples from the book, discuss how the Japanese viewed the prisoner-of-war status and what they would do to avoid becoming prisoners.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the reactions of the prisoners during the rescue and why some of the prisoners fought the rescue.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the cultural differences that led to the disaster that became known as the Bataan Death March.

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