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

2. What organizations will not operate within the framework of guerrilla warfare until the last stages according to Guevara?
(a) Government organizations.
(b) Workers' organizations.
(c) Military organizations.
(d) Agrarian organizations.

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

4. 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) Wilderness survival.
(c) Marksmanship.
(d) Agriculture.

5. The first type of sabotage defined by Guevara is sabotage on a national scale against what?
(a) Peasants and civilians.
(b) Factory workers.
(c) Lines of combat.
(d) Determined objectives.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. One of the central foci of training for guerrilla troops, according to Guevara, would consist in what?

3. What legislative change really created unrest among the remnants of the old regime?

4. Guevara notes that "sabotage should be carried out, of course, only outside the territories dominated by" whom?

5. Sabotage on a national scale should be aimed principally at destroying what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What changes took place after Fidel Castro's rise to power, as described in the Epilogue?

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

3. What is the internal civil organization of a guerrilla movement responsible for?

4. How is strategic sabotage used in the war zone? How is tactical sabotage implemented?

5. What establishments are important to develop once extensive zones of operation are established?

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

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

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

9. What skill does Guevara insist training begin with? Why?

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

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