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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of planes crossed and recrossed Cabanatuan on January 19?
(a) Kingfishers.
(b) O-49s.
(c) O-46s.
(d) Piper Cubs.

2. Where were women, children, and the elderly of Platero and other barrios sent for safety?
(a) The Kitanglad foothills.
(b) The Sierra Madre foothills.
(c) The Caraballo foothills.
(d) The Zambales foothills.

3. What type of planes did the prisoners at Cabanatuan see on the morning of September 24.
(a) P-36 Hawks.
(b) Navy Hellcats.
(c) F4F Wildcats.
(d) Apaches.

4. How many men were injured when a Japanese soldier fired a knee mortar?
(a) 4 men.
(b) 3 men.
(c) 6 men.
(d) 5 men.

5. What did the locals give the Rangers when they stopped in Balincarin?
(a) Water and rice balls.
(b) Bananas.
(c) Cooked vegetables.
(d) Water and noodles.

6. After prisoners shipped out of Cabanatuan, who became the commanding American officer?
(a) Robert Burke.
(b) James Duckworth.
(c) Robert Strong.
(d) Frederick Amos.

7. What name got painted on the American plane that flew over Cabanatuan?
(a) Shady lady.
(b) Moon Happy.
(c) Hard to Get.
(d) Sleepy Time Gal.

8. What type of weed were the Rangers stepping through on January 29?
(a) Panicum.
(b) Gooseweed.
(c) Cogon.
(d) Bindweed.

9. Which guard on the Farm was demanding, but fair?
(a) Liver Lips.
(b) Charlie Chaplin.
(c) Little Speedo.
(d) Big Speedo.

10. What did one of the locals give Prince to eat?
(a) Some rice.
(b) Vegetables wrapped in banana leaves.
(c) Some fruit.
(d) A chicken egg.

11. Where did Bill Nellist grow up?
(a) California.
(b) Idaho.
(c) Oregon.
(d) Washington.

12. What language did Dr. Fisher speak fluently?
(a) German.
(b) Spanish.
(c) French.
(d) Japanese.

13. How far would the Rangers have to crawl on their stomachs toward the camp?
(a) 1/2 mile.
(b) 500 yards.
(c) A mile.
(d) 250 yards.

14. Who was the most reluctant prisoner to leave the camp?
(a) James Duckworth.
(b) Ralph Hibbs.
(c) Bob Body.
(d) Abie Abraham.

15. From where was Chaplain Robert Preston Taylor?
(a) New Mexico.
(b) Texas.
(c) Arizona.
(d) Colorado.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much sleep did the Rangers get in the last seventy-two hours as they were marching prisoners to freedom?

2. Where did John Murphy attend college?

3. What was the nickname for the woman who operated one of Cabanatuan's clandestine enterprises?

4. What nationality was Fuentes?

5. Where did Dr. Jimmy Fisher obtain his medical education?

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