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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many men could fit in the air-raid shelters at Puerto Princesa Prison Camp?
(a) 50 men.
(b) 60 men.
(c) 55 men.
(d) 45 men.

2. What was the name of the monkey brought from the Philippines from New Guinea?
(a) Mike.
(b) Spike.
(c) Keezel.
(d) Weasel.

3. Where did Reed Shurtleff attend college?
(a) The University of South Dakota.
(b) The Unversity of Montana.
(c) The University of Nevada.
(d) The University of Utah.

4. What did Cabanatuan mean?
(a) Place of rocks.
(b) Place of the headhunters.
(c) Place of goats.
(d) Place of the rivers.

5. Who refused to go into the air-raid shelters on December 14?
(a) Robert Pritchford.
(b) Vernon Booth.
(c) C. C. Smith.
(d) Quentine Devore.

Short Answer Questions

1. How was the American who tried to drink from a spring killed?

2. What other historic event happened on the day that General King surrendered to the Japanese?

3. When did Eugene Nielsen tell about the torching of the air-raid shelters at Puerto Princesa Prison Camp on December 14?

4. How many Filipinos had fought on Bataan at the time of the surrender to the Japanese?

5. Where did Van Geldern attend college?

Short Essay Questions

1. What had the prisoners of Puerto Princesa Prison Camp been working on during internment?

2. How did Eugene Nielsen escape after the air-raid shelters at Puerto Princesa got set on fire?

3. What was the mood of the men as they ready for the raid on January 28, 1945?

4. What was The Military Field Code?

5. Why did American prisoners discard anything that had the words "Made in Japan"?

6. When and how did MacArthur leave his Corregidor bunker?

7. What concern did Major Robert Lapham present to G-2 officer Horton White?

8. Why didn't War Plan Orange succeed?

9. What is a reason the Japanese didn't review their evacuation plan when they realized there were more prisoners than previously estimated?

10. For the men of Bataan, what was the real enemy?

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