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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 Tommie Thomas build in his daydreams at Cabanatuan?
(a) An apartment building.
(b) A house.
(c) A skyscraper.
(d) A barn.

2. What did Ralph Hibbs asks the prisoners to start killing during the last weeks of January 1945?
(a) Mosquitoes.
(b) Flies.
(c) Cockroaches.
(d) Rats.

3. Who would fire the inaugural shot to start the raid?
(a) John Murphy.
(b) William Proudfit.
(c) Roy Swezy.
(d) Joe Youngblood.

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

5. Who was the second Ranger to enter Cabanatuan?
(a) John Ryan.
(b) Marcos Keithley.
(c) Walter Ruig.
(d) Leland Provencher.

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. Who was the American provost-marshal in charge of perimeter patrols at Cabanatuan?

3. Where did Pajota and his men set up a roadblock?

4. Who removed the padlock from the front gate of Cabanatuan?

5. What was Dorothy Clara Fuentes' real name?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was special about the P-61 plane?

3. What extensive underground developed that regularly smuggled goods into the camp at Cabanatuan?

4. How did Pajota suggest that the injured prisoners be transported back to American lines?

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

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

7. When the Rangers began getting sleepy on the march, what were they given to keep them awake?

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

9. Describe the weed named cogon.

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

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