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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. Who served as U.S. Secretary of State under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1959?
(a) John Foster Dulles.
(b) John F. Kennedy.
(c) Nelson Rockefeller.
(d) Richard Nixon.

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

3. What was the familiar name of the Cuban agency formed to institute the Agrarian Reform Law?
(a) URTA.
(b) NATO.
(c) UNICEF.
(d) INRA.

4. The key to the beginning of a successful revolutionary movement involves the use of secrecy and what at the initial stages?
(a) Positive thought.
(b) Sabotage.
(c) Planning.
(d) Propaganda.

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

Short Answer 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?

2. In order to ensure the health of the controlled zones, Guevara notes that clean water and what are essential?

3. Guevara states that women are also instrumental in organizing what to help the revolution?

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

5. Guevara notes that the weapons used by the guerrilla army should be what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What created the greatest unrest among the old regime after Castro's rise to power? Why?

2. How does training progress throughout the guerrilla movement, according to Guevara?

3. What is intelligence? How important is intelligence for the guerrilla movement?

4. How should the revolutionary army seek to protect itself against counter-revolutionaries, according to Guevara?

5. What is propaganda? How many kinds does Guevara discuss?

6. What is key in beginning a successful revolution, according to Guevara in the appendices?

7. With how few men is it possible to begin a revolution, according to Guevara? Where are headquarters and arms located in the movement?

8. What was the aim of the bulk of reform under Castro's regime?

9. How does Guevara distinguish the guerrilla army from that of a regular army?

10. How does dedication protect the revolution, according to Guevara?

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