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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where were the Bataan nurses sent before General King surrendered to the Japanese?

2. Where did Bertram Bank go to college?

3. What is the principal island in the Philippines?

4. Who rode at the head of the column of Rangers?

5. Who had found a monkey in New Guinea and brought it with him to the Philippines?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened when a Japanese guard wanted an American's West Point Ring?

2. With surrender eminent, what were the men on Bataan who were fleeing from Japanese doing to their equipment?

3. How did Dr. Hibbs describe his posting in the Philippines in late November 1941?

4. What happened after the men were in the air-raid shelters?

5. When and how did the Americans invade the Philippines after the Japanese attack and occupation?

6. How did General Yamashita plan to conduct the withdrawal of his troops as the Americans forced the Japanese to withdraw?

7. How did Eugene Nielsen escape after the air-raid shelters at Puerto Princesa got set on fire?

8. How did Van Geldern get sent to the Philippines before Captain Prince?

9. What is a reason the Japanese didn't review their evacuation plan when they realized there were more prisoners than previously estimated?

10. Why did American prisoners discard anything that had the words "Made in Japan"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the meaning of Henry Lee's poem quoted in Chapter 5, as it related to the prisoners at Cabanatuan.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the cultural differences that led to the disaster that became known as the Bataan Death March.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss why the prisoners at Cabanatuan considered themselves the ghosts of Bataan.

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