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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. Where is Sordo wounded?

2. What does Pilar think Joaquin sees when he looks at her?

3. What is the weather like when the group reaches the camp?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. After Robert Jordan tells Maria that he loves her, what does he begin to fear and why?

3. Who is Maria?

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

5. Why is Pilar for the bridge?

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

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

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

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

10. How does Anselmo convince Robert Jordan to use the men he has instead of seek men from another camp to help him on his mission?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the character of Pablo during the train and the attack of the barracks. What sort of man was he? Was he brave, bold, a fighter? How has his character changed over time and why has it changed? How has war obstructed the heart and mind of a strong man such as Pablo? Is Pablo a symbol of the transforming power of war to change men and take from them their courage, and instill them with fear?

Essay Topic 2

Superstition is threaded through the novel. Discuss three events that were embedded with superstition and omens. Were the characters foolish for believing in the omens? Or was there truth in their beliefs? Explain using evidence from the text.

Essay Topic 3

Pilar is upset with Pablo for acting cowardly and insecure. She dreams of a former lover, Finito, and how brave he was as a matador. How does Pilar's own reaction toward her husband thwart the mission? How does her coldness toward her husband who does not honor duty, reflect on the morale and actions of the group?

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