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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Guevara states that each unit, be it a column, platoon, or squad needs to set up what whenever it is encamped?
(a) Restroom.
(b) Cooking station.
(c) Guards.
(d) Tents.

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) Sentinel.
(c) Vanguard.
(d) Regime.

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

4. What refers to a weapon made from a sealed container with three parts of kerosene to one part of motor oil ignited with a cloth soaked in kerosene?
(a) C-4.
(b) Pipe bomb.
(c) Molotov Cocktail.
(d) Mortar shell.

5. Once the revolutionary group's fame grows, it is able to recruit and receive support from whom?
(a) Enemy soldiers.
(b) Corrupt police.
(c) The peasants.
(d) The government.

Short Answer Questions

1. The type and times of guerrilla operations need to do what, according to Guevara?

2. 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?

3. Whatever the type of terrain a fighter fights on, Guevara maintains that the __________ of the guerrilla should never change.

4. What term refers to information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc.?

5. What term refers to a mode or system of rule or government?

Short Essay Questions

1. What basic equipment do guerrilla soldiers carry with them?

2. How does the guerrilla maintain the support of people of the countryside according to Guevara?

3. What does Guevara claim the first two lessons of Guerrilla warfare are meant to address in Chapter I: General Principles of Guerrilla Warfare?

4. What are the essential strategic tools and goals of the guerrilla army according to Guevara?

5. What is the ultimate strategy of the guerrilla fighter? How does this evolve over time?

6. How does Guevara define the tactics of a guerrilla force? What is the guerrilla force's main advantage?

7. What does Guevara write of the need for an ideal in the guerrilla fighter?

8. What is the principle tactic of the guerrilla band? What are its attributes?

9. How is a guerrilla army organized? What are the names of the units in the army?

10. When should combat be engaged, according to Guevara? How great a focus of the guerrilla's life is combat?

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