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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Captain Bert Bank's fellow Americans have to carry him semi-conscious for six hours?
(a) He had a deep gash in his head.
(b) He had been knocked unconscious.
(c) He had been stabbed in the back.
(d) He had had a finger cut off.

2. What type of food was a monkey scrambling over on January 28, 1945?
(a) Biscuit.
(b) Corned-beef hash.
(c) Powdered eggs.
(d) MRE.

3. What type of gun did most Rangers, including Captain Prince, carry?
(a) M-1 Garand.
(b) .45 caliber pistols.
(c) Thompson submachine guns.
(d) Cabines.

4. Where did Reed Shurtleff attend college?
(a) The University of Nevada.
(b) The Unversity of Montana.
(c) The University of South Dakota.
(d) The University of Utah.

5. What other attack occurred on the same day as the attack on Luzon?
(a) The Battle of Imphal.
(b) Pearl Harbor.
(c) The Battle of Midway.
(d) The Battle of Guadalcanal.

6. What was the ward called where they placed critically ill patients at Camp O'Donnell?
(a) Death Ward.
(b) Death Row.
(c) St. Peter's Ward.
(d) Zero Ward.

7. How many troops did the General in charge of the Japanese forces command in January of 1945?
(a) 275,000 troops.
(b) 175,000 troops.
(c) 150,000 troops.
(d) 250,000 troops.

8. How long did it take defeat to come to the Americans on Bataan?
(a) 4 months.
(b) 3 months.
(c) 5 months.
(d) 6 months.

9. On what day did General Edward King surrender to the Japanese?
(a) On January 4.
(b) On March 8.
(c) On April 9.
(d) On February 12.

10. What were the Rangers taking to give to the prisoners if the raid was successful?
(a) Cigarettes.
(b) Chocolate bars.
(c) Milk.
(d) Fruit.

11. Where were the prisoners loaded into boxcars?
(a) San Fernando.
(b) Santa Ana.
(c) San Simon.
(d) Santa Rita.

12. What type of planes did the prisoners see after the air-raid alarm sounded on December 14?
(a) FW 190s.
(b) BF-109s.
(c) P 51s.
(d) P-38s.

13. What did Colonel Tsuji once claim to have eaten?
(a) The heart of a dead soldier.
(b) The liver of a downed allied pilot.
(c) The kidney of a killed prisoner.
(d) The intestine of an Allied officer.

14. How many prisoners loaded into each boxcar?
(a) 75 prisoners.
(b) 100 prisoners.
(c) 50 prisoners.
(d) 125 prisoners.

15. In December, where did the Japanese bombers and Zeros catch a large part of the American Air Force of the Far East on the ground?
(a) Clark Field.
(b) Delano Field.
(c) Hamilton Field.
(d) Pearce Field.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Van Geldern attend college?

2. What was Dr. Ralph Emerson Hibbs's rank?

3. What other historic event happened on the day that General King surrendered to the Japanese?

4. What was Lieutenant Sato's nickname?

5. How many Filipinos had fought on Bataan at the time of the surrender to the Japanese?

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