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

2. What was the name of the club that a woman ran who operated one of Cabanatuan's clandestine enterprises?
(a) Club Mabini.
(b) Club Manila.
(c) Club Tsubaki.
(d) Club Luzon.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where was the glow of fighting coming from that the prisoners could see from Cabanatuan in early January?

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

4. What was the Cabanatuan Camp cemetery called?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. In January, why did the Japanese shut down the Farm at Cabanatuan?

2. How was the barking problem in Platero solved?

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

4. How did the villagers greet the Rangers when it came to Platero?

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

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

7. How was the Platero schoolhouse transformed into a makeshift hospital?

8. Who were evacuated from Platero and other barrios?

9. What would Prince oversee as assault commander?

10. Describe what some of the prisoners were doing moments before the Rangers began the raid.

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