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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 was Eugene Nielsen born and raised?

2. When did the aerial attack begin on Luzon?

3. What province did the Rangers drive through the morning they left for the Cabanatuan rescue mission?

4. Who was the commander of the U.S. Sixth Army in January of 1945?

5. Where did Van Geldern attend college?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why did the Rangers hate Mucci and then change their minds about him?

3. How would the Filipinos show their loyalty to the Americans as prisoners marched north out of Bataan?

4. What happened after the men were in the air-raid shelters?

5. Why did Abraham believe that those who didn't have dysentery before the march out of Bataan would surely get dysentery?

6. Approximately how many died as the Americans and Filipinos moved north out of Bataan?

7. Why were the Japanese gathering in Cabanatuan?

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

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

10. Why did Mucci want photographers to accompany the Rangers on their rescue mission?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the reasons why the prisoners believed they would be massacred. Use examples from the book.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the reactions of the prisoners during the rescue and why some of the prisoners fought the rescue.

Essay Topic 3

Using examples from the book, discuss General Homma's plan for evacuating Americans and Filipinos from the Bataan peninsula and the flaws in his plan.

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