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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 lay up against waiting for the fascists to get closer, while holding his machine gun?
(a) a tree
(b) a tank
(c) a rock
(d) the bridge

2. What does Robert Jordan find missing when he checks his sack?
(a) shampoo and conditioner
(b) guns and ammunition
(c) exploder and detonators
(d) food for the remainder of the stay

3. How does Robert Jordan feel when he thinks about Pablo and the explosives?
(a) hopeful
(b) enraged
(c) obsessive
(d) indifferent

4. Robert Jordan claims he is not superstitious, be he views the planes and fascist activity as what?
(a) bad omens
(b) good luck
(c) signs of progress
(d) signs of encouragment

5. How does Gomez transport Andres to see the lieutenant colonel?
(a) car
(b) motorcycle
(c) plane
(d) train

6. Why is Robert Jordan angry with himself when he finds out the explosives are missing?
(a) he knew PIlar could not be trusted
(b) he knew he could not trust himself
(c) he knew Pablo could not be trusted
(d) he should have hidden his pack

7. Who does Pilar blame when she finds out Pablo took the explosives?
(a) the gypsy
(b) Maria
(c) herself
(d) Robert Jordan

8. What does Golz watch as he receives the dispatch?
(a) a fleet of fascists leaving
(b) the empty trucks roll in
(c) smoke rise up from the mountains
(d) the planes take off

9. What does Robert Jordan NOT believe in?
(a) courage
(b) omens
(c) luck
(d) forgiveness

10. What is Robert Jordan doing when Anselmo finds him?
(a) writing in his notebook
(b) crying alone
(c) praying
(d) sleeping on the hillside

11. Who does Andres tell the guard he is associated with?
(a) The band of Pablo
(b) The Americans
(c) The Fascists
(d) The Republicans

12. What does Robert Jordan compare the feeling of going into battle with?
(a) going to a funeral
(b) going away to school
(c) preparing for a test
(d) getting married

13. Whose grenades does Robert Jordan decide to use?
(a) Fernando
(b) Pablo
(c) Eladio
(d) Agustin

14. What does Maria think that the love she shares with Robert Jordan is a sign of?
(a) good fortune
(b) evil
(c) future children
(d) death to come

15. Who's influence has made Robert Jordan doubt the success of the mission?
(a) Anselmo
(b) Pilar
(c) Pablo
(d) Agustin

Short Answer Questions

1. Who appears at the entrance to the cave?

2. What does the Spanish officer tell Karkov's wife about the offensive?

3. What is the name of the lieutenant colonel?

4. Robert Jordan reminds PIlar that there will be no attack unless they hear this sound.

5. After Robert Jordan calms himself regarding Pablo's actions, what does he begin to think about?

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