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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. Two weeks after the storehouse raids at Cabanatuan, what did Ralph Rodriguez weigh?

2. What language did Dr. Fisher speak fluently?

3. In Chapter 8, how high was the Pampanga River in places?

4. What did the prisoners steal from a farmer when they were alone at Cabanatuan?

5. What was the name of the club that a woman ran who operated one of Cabanatuan's clandestine enterprises?

Short Essay Questions

1. How was the barking problem in Platero solved?

2. What was an aswang?

3. How was Platero made the Ranger staging area and bivouac site?

4. Who was the last prisoner left in Cabanatuan and why was he left there?

5. What was special about the P-61 plane?

6. Who were evacuated from Platero and other barrios?

7. When the Rangers began getting sleepy on the march, what were they given to keep them awake?

8. Why weren't the Signal Corps men as excited as the Rangers as the mission got underway?

9. In January, why did the Japanese shut down the Farm at Cabanatuan?

10. How did the villagers greet the Rangers when it came to Platero?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the aphorism, "There are no atheists in foxholes," and how it applied to Captain Bank.

Essay Topic 2

Using examples from the book, discuss General Homma's plan for evacuating Americans and Filipinos from the Bataan peninsula and the flaws in his plan.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss how and why the Filipinos helped Americans in the fight against the Japanese.

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