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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 did Colonel Duckworth break when fleeing the camp?

2. Which guard on the Farm was demanding, but fair?

3. What language did Dr. Fisher speak fluently?

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

5. When did Corregidor surrender?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How was the barking problem in Platero solved?

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

4. When the Rangers began getting sleepy on the march, what were they given to keep them awake?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

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

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