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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2 The Guerilla Band (3 Organization of a Guerilla Band, 4 The Combat, 5 Beginning, Development, and end of a Guerilla War).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A guerrilla army is organized into units of 100-150 men is called what?
(a) Columns.
(b) Troops.
(c) Squads.
(d) Brigades.

2. What refers to a guard often posted around the guerrilla camp to notify sleeping troops of any kind of breach in the camp's perimeter?
(a) Regiment.
(b) Regime.
(c) Vanguard.
(d) Sentinel.

3. What is the title of the direct commander over a squad in a guerrilla army?
(a) Officer.
(b) Corporal.
(c) Commandante.
(d) Lieutenant.

4. What is the first of the three fundamental lessons that the Cuban Revolution contributed to the conduct of revolutionary movements in America according to Guevara?
(a) War can be fought without money.
(b) Popular forces can win a war against the army.
(c) War should be fought in the countryside.
(d) War can be fought on any ground.

5. Of his three propositions of lessons from the Cuban Revolution, Guevara writes that the first two contradict the "defeatist attitude of revolutionaries or pseudo-revolutionaries who remain" what?
(a) Afraid.
(b) Brave.
(c) Inactive.
(d) Willing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What platoon's purpose is to reinforce the vanguard unit at the head of the attack if it should lose ground?

2. The main advantage of a guerrilla force over a conventional force is its flexibility and what?

3. In his second lesson learned from the Cuban Revolution regarding the conduct of revolutionary movements in America, Guevara writes, "It is not necessary to wait until all conditions for making revolution exist; the ______ can create them."

4. Guevara claims that the guerrilla carries the banner of what to the countryside where he will most likely find a welcome audience?

5. In many areas, the guerrilla cannot rely on the help of which group, because reprisals from the state are often so violent that their loyalty cannot be assured?

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