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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 Cabanatuan Camp cemetery called?
(a) Skeleton Plot.
(b) Death Hill.
(c) The Resting Place.
(d) Bone Hill.

2. After prisoners shipped out of Cabanatuan, who became the commanding American officer?
(a) Robert Strong.
(b) James Duckworth.
(c) Robert Burke.
(d) Frederick Amos.

3. What time did Pajota set a bomb to detonate on the Cabu River bridge?
(a) 6:30 p.m.
(b) 7:45 p.m.
(c) 8:00 p.m.
(d) 7:00 p.m.

4. From where did Alamo Scouts rescue Dutch prisoners of war?
(a) Manilla.
(b) Indonesia.
(c) Luzon.
(d) New Guinea.

5. Approximately how tall was the gate at the main entrance to Cabanatuan?
(a) 8 feet.
(b) 10 feet.
(c) 9 feet.
(d) 7 feet.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. From where was Chaplain Robert Preston Taylor?

3. What did the Navy men use to sound the half hours of each day at Cabanatuan?

4. How many Japanese troops was it estimated that assembled in Cabanatuan City?

5. What did Tommie Thomas build in his daydreams at Cabanatuan?

Short Essay Questions

1. How was the barking problem in Platero solved?

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

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

4. What was an aswang?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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