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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. How far would the Rangers have to crawl on their stomachs toward the camp?

2. What nationality was the priest allowed to enter Cabanatuan camp?

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

4. What did Colonel Duckworth break when fleeing the camp?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who were evacuated from Platero and other barrios?

3. What would happen to a prisoner if he would slip a root or a pod of beans into his personal gunny sack?

4. How was Platero made the Ranger staging area and bivouac site?

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

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

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

8. What happened when Tommie Thomas caught diphtheria?

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

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

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 aphorism, "There are no atheists in foxholes," and how it applied to Captain Bank.

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast how the Filipinos felt about the Japanese and how they felt about the Americans.

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