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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Robert Jordan believe in regarding government?
(a) communism
(b) a socialist nation
(c) people have a right to govern themselves
(d) totalitarianism

2. Robert Jordan wakes to the sound of this in the morning.
(a) explosives
(b) gunfire
(c) car engine
(d) airplanes

3. Who does Robert Jordan most want to see when he returns to Gaylords?
(a) Anselmo
(b) Agustin
(c) Pablo
(d) Karkov

4. What is the name of the restaurant where Robert Jordan met the peasant Spanish commanders when he first joined the movement?
(a) Alfonsos
(b) Carabanchel
(c) Gaylords
(d) Usera

5. What does Robert Jordan say they will do about the attack on Sordo?
(a) invade the camp
(b) nothing
(c) find horses
(d) ambush the enemy

6. According to Pilar during the discussion of the mob storming the Ayuntamiento, what was the result of throwing the fascists from the cliff?
(a) judgment day was upon them
(b) they would be forgiven
(c) they would face arrest
(d) bad things would come 3 days later

7. When Pablo cries, what does he tell Pilar he is most afraid of?
(a) love
(b) death
(c) injury
(d) being held prisoner

8. Who does Pilar send with food, wine, and the dead cavalryman's papers?
(a) Agustin
(b) Maria
(c) Robert Jordan
(d) Primivito

9. Where is Sordo wounded?
(a) his leg and elbow
(b) his collarbone
(c) his chest
(d) his leg and left arm

10. What career does Robert Jordan want to return to after the war?
(a) teaching
(b) business
(c) law
(d) medicine

11. What is the name of the man who is waiting faithfully at his post to be relieved?
(a) Sordo
(b) Pablo
(c) Fernando
(d) Anselmo

12. Who first offers to kill Pablo?
(a) Pilar
(b) Fernando
(c) Robert Jordan
(d) Anselmo

13. Anselmo cannot write so Robert Jordan suggests that he do this instead to indicate enemy movement.
(a) learn to write
(b) use sign language
(c) draw symbols and tally marks
(d) pass on the responsibility to Pablo

14. If not death, what does the gypsy suggest the group do to Pablo to control him?
(a) drug Pablo
(b) kidnap Pablo
(c) cripple Pablo
(d) blind Pablo

15. What does Robert Jordan tell Maria when she joins him sleeping?
(a) he loves Pilar
(b) he won't kill Pablo
(c) he loves her
(d) he is afraid to die

Short Answer Questions

1. Maria has read in the fascist newspapers that there are hundreds of thousands of Russians in this city.

2. What happens after the planes bomb the hill heavily?

3. Who does Robert Jordan want to talk politics with?

4. Who is making a daytime plan of escape for Robert Jordan?

5. Who has Sordo's gun?

(see the answer keys)

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