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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. When did the Rangers and prisoners leave Platero?

2. What type of weed were the Rangers stepping through on January 29?

3. What time did Pajota set a bomb to detonate on the Cabu River bridge?

4. Where were women, children, and the elderly of Platero and other barrios sent for safety?

5. Where did John Murphy attend college?

Short Essay Questions

1. What would Prince oversee as assault commander?

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

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

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

5. Why wasn't Prince worried about informants when they arrived in Balincarin and learned that people knew all about the Rangers' mission?

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

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

8. Who were evacuated from Platero and other barrios?

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

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

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 why General King decided to surrender to the Japanese without approval from his superiors, using examples from the book.

Essay Topic 3

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

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