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

2. How did Lieutenant Nellist hide his M-1when he and Private Vaquilar went to a deserted shack?

3. Where was Dr. Fisher raised?

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

5. When did Corregidor surrender?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How was the barking problem in Platero solved?

3. Who were evacuated from Platero and other barrios?

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

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

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

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

8. How did Teddy Richardson get the padlock open on the front gate?

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

10. What would Prince oversee as assault commander?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss how and why the Filipinos helped Americans in the fight against the Japanese.

Essay Topic 2

Argue whether the men should have tried to escape when the Japanese left the camp unguarded. Use examples from the book to support your arguments.

Essay Topic 3

Using examples from the book, discuss the retreat of the Japanese in 1945 and how their commander attempted to keep the retreat from being a rout.

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