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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 Joson and his men set up a roadblock?

2. What song was Ralph Rodriguez playing on a phonograph the evening of January 30?

3. What constantly appeared in Abie Abraham's dreams when he was a prisoner at Cabanatuan?

4. What color was Dorothy Clara Fuentes' hair?

5. Where was John Murphy from?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Who were evacuated from Platero and other barrios?

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

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

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

10. What would Prince oversee as assault commander?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

Using examples from the book, discuss the retreat of the Japanese in 1945 and how their commander attempted to keep the retreat from being a rout.

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