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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 Andre Marty immediately order?

2. What does Robert Jordan think Pablo's return is a sign of?

3. What does Robert Jordan find missing when he checks his sack?

4. What does Robert Jordan compare Anselmo and Agustin to?

5. What event does Andres tell the government about that they did not know?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the new men mistakenly think Pablo's role is in the mission?

2. How does Gomez make sure Andres speaks to Lieutenant Colonel Miranda?

3. What do Robert Jordan and Pablo discuss as they load the horses and prepare to leave?

4. Why does Karkov plan to drive to the front in the early morning hours before the offensive?

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

6. What happens when Gomez speaks with Andre Marty, the French officer?

7. What does Lieutenant Colonel Miranda tell Gomez to do?

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

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

10. How did Robert Jordan's father kill himself?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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