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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 new antimalarial drug were the Rangers taking?

2. After prisoners shipped out of Cabanatuan, who became the commanding American officer?

3. What was the camp's prime meeting ground named by the prisoners?

4. Where were women, children, and the elderly of Platero and other barrios sent for safety?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How was Pajota planning for the rescue mission?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast Commandant Mori and Captain Tsuneyoshi, using examples from the book.

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