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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How many men could fit in the air-raid shelters at Puerto Princesa Prison Camp?
(a) 60 men.
(b) 50 men.
(c) 55 men.
(d) 45 men.

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

4. Where did Van Geldern attend college?
(a) University of California Davis.
(b) Cal Poly.
(c) University of California Riverside.
(d) Santa Clara University.

5. When did Bertram Bank arrive in Manila?
(a) January 1939.
(b) March 1942.
(c) February 1940.
(d) November 1941.

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

7. What was Dr. Ralph Emerson Hibbs's rank?
(a) Major.
(b) Lieutenant.
(c) Lieutenant Major.
(d) Captain.

8. How old were many of the Japanese soldiers guarding Abie Abraham and his comrades?
(a) 30 to 35 years of age.
(b) 25 to 30 years of age.
(c) 17 to 18 years of age.
(d) 40 to 45 years of age.

9. Where did Dr. Hibbs go to medical school?
(a) University of Indiana.
(b) University of Iowa.
(c) University of Illinois.
(d) University of Wisconsin.

10. How many men survived the massacre at Puerto Princesa?
(a) 12 men.
(b) 9 men.
(c) 11 men.
(d) 10 men.

11. What was the date when Abie Abraham and his comrades had to stand near water, but could not drink?
(a) April 22, 1942.
(b) April 10, 1942.
(c) April 2, 1942.
(d) April 30, 1942.

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

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

14. What type of vehicle did Colonel Motoo Nakayama arrive in to discuss surrender with General King?
(a) A Jeep.
(b) A Mercedes Benz.
(c) A Lincoln Continental.
(d) A Cadillac.

15. From where did General MacArthur direct the action after the December attack by the Japanese?
(a) A bunker on the Bataan peninsula.
(b) A bunker under Luzon.
(c) A bunker under Manilla.
(d) A bunker inside Corregidor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of food was a monkey scrambling over on January 28, 1945?

2. How many friends did Captain Robert Prince have who had been sent to the Philippines before he was and had been trapped on Bataan?

3. Where did the trains take prisoners?

4. Where did the small number of men who escaped from Philippine prison camps manage to escape to?

5. What did Colonel Tsuji once claim to have eaten?

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