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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 did Prince attend college?

2. Which of the Rangers was seriously injured when a Japanese soldier fired a knee mortar?

3. How long did it take the Rangers to neutralize the towers and pill boxes?

4. What new antimalarial drug were the Rangers taking?

5. What was the largest non-American contingent of prisoners at Cabanatuan?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the villagers greet the Rangers when it came to Platero?

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

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

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

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

6. Who were evacuated from Platero and other barrios?

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

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

9. How did Pajota suggest that the injured prisoners be transported back to American lines?

10. What efforts did the American prisoners who had engineering skills make to improve Cabanatuan prison?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the rules and patterns that Bank observed about how to avoid punishment or death.

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast Colonel Masanobu Tsuji and General Homma, using examples from the book.

Essay Topic 3

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

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