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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 nationality was Fuentes?
(a) American.
(b) Italian.
(c) French.
(d) British.

2. What dormant volcano could be seen to the west as the Rangers crawled toward Cabanatuan?
(a) Mount Arayat.
(b) Mount Mayon.
(c) Mount Pinatubo.
(d) Mount Taal.

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

4. 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.

5. What type of American plane flew over Cabanatuan as Mucci requested?
(a) P-61.
(b) FW-190.
(c) P-38.
(d) BF-109.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of planes crossed and recrossed Cabanatuan on January 19?

2. Who was able to calm the prisoners when locked below the decks on the Oryoku Maru?

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

4. Which of the Rangers was seriously injured when a Japanese soldier fired a knee mortar?

5. Where was Dr. Fisher raised?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was an aswang?

2. What happened when Tommie Thomas caught diphtheria?

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

4. What concerns did Mucci have about the guerrillas as they readied to attack Cabanatuan?

5. How was Platero made the Ranger staging area and bivouac site?

6. Why wasn't Prince worried about informants when they arrived in Balincarin and learned that people knew all about the Rangers' mission?

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

8. Why weren't the Signal Corps men as excited as the Rangers as the mission got underway?

9. Describe the weed named cogon.

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

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