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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What occupation does Joaquin hold?
(a) a doctor
(b) a bullfighter
(c) a lawyer
(d) a military officer

2. Fernando remembers talks about the movement in La Ganja that allude to the Republic planning this.
(a) a defensive strategy
(b) a frontal attack
(c) a meeting
(d) an offensive

3. What does Robert Jordan see on one of the saddles of the cavalry?
(a) a pistol
(b) letters
(c) ammunition
(d) Sordo's rifle

4. Why is Pilar afraid of the planes that fly overhead?
(a) they may release bombs
(b) they are a bad omen
(c) they make hearing difficult
(d) they might spot them on the ground

5. When asked, Robert Jordan tells Maria that politically he can be defined as this.
(a) a Republican
(b) an anti-fascist
(c) an anarchist
(d) a communist

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Maria visit in the night?

2. What does Robert Jordan wake in the morning to hear?

3. Robert Jordan tells Agustin and Primivito not to shoot or throw a grenade unless they hear shooting from this object.

4. Who does Pilar send with food, wine, and the dead cavalryman's papers?

5. What patrol do the three planes that fly in V formation belong to?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Maria?

2. Which characters does Agustin describe as dependable members of the group?

3. Why does Pablo refuse to call Robert Jordan a professor?

4. Is Sordo afraid to die? Explain.

5. What makes Maria feel like Robert Jordan will not love her?

6. What does Pilar reminisce about when she sits down to eat with Fernando?

7. Agustin hopes for a massacre, but Robert Jordan tells him that without the bridge it would mean nothing. Why?

8. What sickens Robert Jordan the most as the cavalry pass by?

9. Why does Robert Jordan choose not to kill Pablo?

10. Why does Robert Jordan tell Primivito that they will do nothing about the attack on Sordo?

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