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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 far would the Rangers have to crawl on their stomachs toward the camp?
(a) A mile.
(b) 1/2 mile.
(c) 500 yards.
(d) 250 yards.

2. Who removed the padlock from the front gate of Cabanatuan?
(a) Lesley Palmer.
(b) John Spradlin.
(c) Teddy Richardson.
(d) Ray Fouts.

3. What language did Dr. Fisher speak fluently?
(a) French.
(b) German.
(c) Spanish.
(d) Japanese.

4. How much sleep did the Rangers get in the last seventy-two hours as they were marching prisoners to freedom?
(a) 5 to 6 hours.
(b) 9 to10 hours.
(c) 7 to 8 hours.
(d) 3 to 4 hours.

5. Who died just as the prisoners and Rangers crossed American lines?
(a) Patrick.
(b) Miller.
(c) McPherson.
(d) Johnson.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the most popular class in the prison, "University of the Far East"?

2. When did the Rangers and prisoners leave Platero?

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

4. What was the least desirable of all the Cabanatuan work details?

5. Which guard on the Farm was demanding, but fair?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was an aswang?

3. Describe the weed named cogon.

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

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

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

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

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

9. How did Nellist remove a metal fragment from Rounsaville?

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

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