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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long had it taken the prisoners to complete their building project at Puerto Princesa Prison Camp?
(a) About a year and a half.
(b) Nearly four years.
(c) About two years.
(d) Nearly three years.

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

3. What did a Filipino tell Eugene Neilsen after Neilsen asked the man to write the War Department about the massacre at Puerto Princesa?
(a) You will be safe with me.
(b) You have friends here.
(c) Come with me.
(d) Tell them yourself.

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

5. Where were the Bataan nurses sent before General King surrendered to the Japanese?
(a) Manila.
(b) Australia.
(c) Corregidor.
(d) Luzon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What defensive strategy did Douglas MacArthur execute when the Japanese attacked the Philippines in December of 1941?

2. What did Cabanatuan mean?

3. How far were the rangers from Cabanatuan when they stopped to begin marching on foot?

4. How many years had Eugene Nielsen been interred at Puerto Princesa Prison Camp?

5. What mountains bordered the flat sugar country the Rangers drove through on their way to Cabanatuan?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was The Military Field Code?

2. What type of equipment did Army photographers bring when they accompanied the Rangers on their rescue mission?

3. Why did Mucci want photographers to accompany the Rangers on their rescue mission?

4. Who was Keezel?

5. How did Eugene Nielsen escape after the air-raid shelters at Puerto Princesa got set on fire?

6. What concern did Major Robert Lapham present to G-2 officer Horton White?

7. Why were the Japanese gathering in Cabanatuan?

8. What is a reason the Japanese didn't review their evacuation plan when they realized there were more prisoners than previously estimated?

9. How did General Yamashita plan to conduct the withdrawal of his troops as the Americans forced the Japanese to withdraw?

10. What were Army veterinarians doing as the men fled toward Mariveles?

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