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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. What type of fighter planes flew over Cabanatuan January 19?

2. What did the prisoners find in the kitchen at Cabanatuan when the Japanese left?

3. Where did Bill Nellist grow up?

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

5. What was the name of a hated guard who watched over prisoners working on the Farm?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What would Prince oversee as assault commander?

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

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

5. How was the barking problem in Platero solved?

6. Describe the weed named cogon.

7. How was Pajota planning for the rescue mission?

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

9. What was an aswang?

10. Who were evacuated from Platero and other barrios?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss how the Japanese treated prisoners of war and use examples from the book.

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

Using examples from "Ghost Soldiers," discuss how and why the Cabanatuan prisoners organized the camp.

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