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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 was wrong with the spare tire in Chapter 14?

2. Where did Che and Alberto stay while in Bariloche by the Seven Lakes Road?

3. What was mined in Chuquicamata?

4. When asked why they were on such a long journey, what did Alberto and Che answer?

5. What happened to La Ponderosa in Chapter 6?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened at the German's house?

2. What is each "chapter" of "The Motorcycle Diaries" and why is this relevant?

3. Where did La Ponderosa crash in Chapter 15?

4. While weathering a storm in a police station, what did Che do?

5. Who was Chichina, what did she give Alberto, and why?

6. Who or what was La Ponderosa II?

7. What did Che tell his mother in his first letter to her?

8. In Chapter 19, what did Che and Alberto lose and what did this force them to do?

9. What did some doctors in Chile say about leprosy?

10. What did Che recall about his Peronist friend in Argentina?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Throughout the memoir, as well as later in life, Che Guevara cites American capitalism as the source of Latin American strife and offers communism as a solution to the problem. Write an essay that:

1) Defines capitalism.

2) Defines communism.

3) Chooses one ideology and argues for it.

Essay Topic 2

When "The Motorcycle Diaries" begins, Che is a young man in his twenties and quite youthful. Discuss how the book is a story about youth, and at the same time about loss of youth.

Essay Topic 3

Choose a country featured in the book and write a history of political events, starting the same year that Che visits. Be sure to draw parallels between what is touched upon in the text and political history.

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