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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 does Robert Jordan tell Pilar he saw on Kashkin's face?

2. Has Anselmo ever been in battle?

3. What is the only thing Robert Jordan can think about after he and Maria walk through the heather?

4. Who has killed Joaquin's parents, brother, and sister?

5. On the way to El Sordo, what detail of the movement does Pilar discuss?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Robert Jordan imagine his life to be as he thinks about what he will do after the war?

2. What did Pilar do to escape the attack at the barracks?

3. How does Primivito react to the outcome of the fighting at Sordo's?

4. Why does Pilar love the memory of Finito more than the reality of Pablo?

5. What happens after Robert Jordan shoots the horseman?

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

7. What does Robert Jordan believe the root is of being vulnerable to corruption in war?

8. Why is Pilar jealous of Maria and Robert Jordan?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Robert Jordan trusts Agustin, who controlled his urge to kill the first four cavalrymen. If he had killed them, what would have happened to the mission? Agustin had the innate desire to kill. Robert Jordan thinks that killing is sacramental to Spaniards. Do you agree? Give examples from the text.

Essay Topic 2

Define guerrilla warfare, then define civil war. What does it mean to engage in guerrilla warfare during a civil war? Name and discuss two events in history that have seen the type of fighting that are portrayed in Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls. Compare and contrast them to Hemingway's presentation of the Spanish Civil War.

Essay Topic 3

Joaquin's story shows the effects of war on the civilian population. It also symbolizes what happens in many countries when America intervenes in foreign affairs. What is the price that civilians of the countries America invades pay for supporting wars? Discuss current events that depict this intervention.

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