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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What consists of seating the rifle firmly on any kind of wooden apparatus and without moving or firing the rifle the recruits direct the movement of a target until they think they have a hole at the center exactly in the line of sight?
(a) Donut holing.
(b) Dry shooting.
(c) Rapid repeat.
(d) Pseudo-shooting.

2. Following the Cuban Revolution, Guevara served as ___________ director for Cuba's armed forces.
(a) Instructional.
(b) Operational.
(c) Weaponry.
(d) Intelligence.

3. What refers to an economic and sociopolitical worldview that contains within it a political ideology for how to change and improve society by implementing socialism?
(a) Marxism.
(b) Communism.
(c) Leninism.
(d) Capitalism.

4. When the revolutionary army has developed extensive zones of operation, what becomes important to carry out revolutionary law?
(a) A dictator.
(b) Enemy forces.
(c) A witness.
(d) A council of justice.

5. At the early stages of the guerrilla war, training will primarily consist of what?
(a) Marksmanship.
(b) Academic training.
(c) Direct learning.
(d) Marching.

6. Supplies should always be taken from whom, according to Guevara?
(a) The peasants.
(b) Exterior governmental aid.
(c) Counterrevolutionaries.
(d) The government.

7. When did the Cuban Missile Crisis take place?
(a) 1952.
(b) 1962.
(c) 1975.
(d) 1959.

8. Guevara notes that if there is a large number of volunteers, more than is needed for fighting, some can begin to grow food and procure what in occupied zones?
(a) Governmental support.
(b) Clothing.
(c) Arms.
(d) Weaponry.

9. Aside from training in the basic skills of soldiering, the maximum amount of time should be spent on indoctrination in what?
(a) Revolutionary thought.
(b) Agriculture.
(c) Wilderness survival.
(d) Marksmanship.

10. Guevara writes that no one within the guerrilla army should be allowed to live or go out how?
(a) Without arms.
(b) Accompanied.
(c) With the enemy.
(d) Alone.

11. In Appendix 1: Organization in Secret of the First Guerrilla Band, Guevara opens by stating that guerrilla warfare obeys what?
(a) Marxist philosophy.
(b) Western structure.
(c) Laws.
(d) Religious doctrine.

12. Guevara notes that communications by road can be completely paralyzed by the adequate employment of what?
(a) Bazookas.
(b) Stealth attacks.
(c) Mines.
(d) Tanks.

13. Once in control, Fidel and his government reformed rent laws and the ownership of what services?
(a) Television.
(b) Sewer.
(c) Water.
(d) Telephone.

14. Within the army violations of discipline must be punished how?
(a) Fairly but harshly.
(b) Harshly and brutally.
(c) Torturously and fatally.
(d) By firing squad.

15. Guerrilla bands have in the past underutilized who, according to Guevara?
(a) Older men.
(b) Children.
(c) Women.
(d) Younger men.

Short Answer Questions

1. The first type of sabotage defined by Guevara is sabotage on a national scale against what?

2. What amount of time does Guevara write in the Epilogue "has now passed since the flight of the dictator, the culmination of a long armed civil struggle by the Cuban people"?

3. Who was one of the opposition of the Agrarian Reform law and referred to by Guevara as "the voice of reaction; he had accurately interpreted what was going to happen and had retired to quieter scenes under the Spanish dictatorship"?

4. Within the propaganda organization there should be periodicals aimed at whom, according to Guevara?

5. In the first Appendix, Guevara writes "The revolutionary in a clandestine situation preparing for war should be a complete" what?

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