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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What other historic event happened on the day that General King surrendered to the Japanese?
(a) Abraham Lincoln was shot.
(b) The fall of Fort Sumter.
(c) General Lee surrendered to General Grant.
(d) The Battle of Gettysburg began.

2. Who commanded the Japanese Fourteenth Imperial Army?
(a) Lieutenant General Fumio Saeki.
(b) Lieutenant General Katzutsugu Dobashi.
(c) General Tomoyuki Yamashita.
(d) General Keisuke Fujie.

3. Where was the last survivor of the massacre at Puerto Princesa found?
(a) Clinging to a Filipino fish trap in the bay.
(b) Hiding in brush on the far shore.
(c) Clinging to driftwood.
(d) Washed up on the far shore.

4. What vitamin deficiency caused beriberi?
(a) Lack of Vitamin K.
(b) Lack of Vitamin B.
(c) Lack of Vitamin D.
(d) Lack of Vitamin C.

5. What was at the rear of the soldiers who were trying to flee to Mariveles?
(a) The Philippine Sea.
(b) The Sulu Sea.
(c) The South China Sea.
(d) The Pacific Sea.

6. 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) Delano Field.
(b) Pearce Field.
(c) Clark Field.
(d) Hamilton Field.

7. By January 28, toward what city were the Japanese making a ragged retreat?
(a) San Juan.
(b) Bambang.
(c) Agoo.
(d) Baguio.

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

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

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

11. What province did the Rangers drive through the morning they left for the Cabanatuan rescue mission?
(a) Kalinga.
(b) Cavite.
(c) Apayo.
(d) Pangasinan.

12. What did the prisoners call the Battan Death March at the time that they were making the trip?
(a) The Mission.
(b) The Hike.
(c) The Death Walk.
(d) The March.

13. Where were the survivors of the massacre at Puerto Princesa evacuated?
(a) Morotai.
(b) Balabac.
(c) Agutaya.
(d) Verde.

14. Where did the small number of men who escaped from Philippine prison camps manage to escape to?
(a) New Zealand.
(b) New Guinea.
(c) Taiwan.
(d) Australia.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Cabanatuan mean?

2. Where did the trains take prisoners?

3. What was Lieutenant Sato's nickname?

4. What officer liberated 1,000 American and Filipino prisoners and even gave them advice on what routes to take?

5. What did a Filipino tell Eugene Neilsen after Neilsen asked the man to write the War Department about the massacre at Puerto Princesa?

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