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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 the Spanish officer tell Karkov's wife about the offensive?

2. What does Robert Jordan silently wish why lying in Maria's arms.

3. What does Robert Jordan leave with Agustin, but warns not to use until the fighting is over?

4. Where does Robert Jordan lie to wait for daylight?

5. What does Pilar think about Robert Jordan's palm and what the gypsy has said?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Robert Jordan's dispatch to General Golz say?

2. What happens after Robert Jordan finishes wiring the bridge and hears a truck coming down the road?

3. What is Robert Jordan's plan?

4. When Andres arrives at the government position, what do the guards think of him?

5. Does Golz receive the dispatch? Explain.

6. What does Andres think about as he walks to Golz, carrying a message from Robert Jordan?

7. When Robert Jordan thinks of the bridge now, what does he feel?

8. Describe what Maria believes about the love between her and Robert Jordan, even as Robert Jordan grows more and more realistic about the outcome of the day.

9. What is the ultimate reason Pablo returned to the cave?

10. What begins to happen to Robert Jordan as he thinks more and more of Pablo?

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

Pablo is viewed by his comrades as a dissenter. They plot to kill him, as the gypsy suggests. Pablo then returns to the group a changed man, willing to participate and get along. What event is the turning point for Pablo? Is it the thought of impending death or the hope of redemption and restoration of bravery that has changed Pablo?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the barbarianism that is displayed during the taking of the hilltop at Sordos? Does this type of action define fascism itself or does it define the dark culture of Spain? How so? How does this practice relate to other cultures in times of war? (i.e Native Americans, scalping, etc). Explain your answer.

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