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

2. What did Tommie Thomas build in his daydreams at Cabanatuan?

3. How much did the American Red Cross Standard Package Number 8 weigh?

4. What was the nickname for the woman who operated one of Cabanatuan's clandestine enterprises?

5. What was the name of the club that a woman ran who operated one of Cabanatuan's clandestine enterprises?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who was the last prisoner left in Cabanatuan and why was he left there?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Discuss how the Japanese treated prisoners of war and use examples from the book.

Essay Topic 3

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

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