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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. What was the largest non-American contingent of prisoners at Cabanatuan?
(a) Canadians.
(b) Dutch.
(c) Norwegians.
(d) British.

2. Where did John Murphy attend college?
(a) Princeton.
(b) Notre Dame.
(c) Stanford.
(d) Creighton.

3. What new antimalarial drug were the Rangers taking?
(a) Chloroquine.
(b) Atabrine.
(c) Clindamycin.
(d) Proguanil.

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

5. How many carts drawn by carabao carry prisoners when they left Platero?
(a) About 20.
(b) About 35.
(c) More than 30.
(d) More than 40.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Ralph Hibbs asks the prisoners to start killing during the last weeks of January 1945?

2. What was the name of the club that a woman ran who operated one of Cabanatuan's clandestine enterprises?

3. How far would the Rangers have to crawl on their stomachs toward the camp?

4. Who died just as the prisoners and Rangers crossed American lines?

5. What food did Robert Brody dream of at Cabanatuan?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was the last prisoner left in Cabanatuan and why was he left there?

2. What efforts did the American prisoners who had engineering skills make to improve Cabanatuan prison?

3. What did Captain Pajota suggest as cover for the Rangers as they wriggled to their positions in the fields?

4. What would happen to a prisoner if he would slip a root or a pod of beans into his personal gunny sack?

5. When McCarty and some other prisoners went back to the Japanese side to find more food, what did they encounter on their way back?

6. How were most of the Cabanatuan prisoners transported back to the United States?

7. How did Teddy Richardson get the padlock open on the front gate?

8. What would Prince oversee as assault commander?

9. What were some valuables that the prisoners stowed around the camp that they weren't allowed to take with them?

10. How was the barking problem in Platero solved?

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