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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which river did Che and Alberto trace in Chapter 27?

2. What did Che and Alberto spend their last bit of money on?

3. What made the boat ride to San Pablo especially difficult?

4. What did Che and Alberto see in Sicuani?

5. At the beginning of Chapter 22, what country were Che and Alberto about to enter?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Che expect from the upcoming Chilean elections of 1952?

2. In Chapter 23, what did the schoolteacher talk about?

3. Describe the San Pablo leper colony.

4. According to Che in Chapter 29, what had the native's lost?

5. Who loaned Che and Alberto horses, and why?

6. In Chapter 32, what did Che and Alberto need, and why couldn't they get it?

7. How did Che and Alberto get to Brazil?

8. How did Che celebrate his twenty-fourth birthday?

9. Who were Che and Alberto supposed to meet up with in Oxapampa? Who did they actually meet up with?

10. Who housed Che and Alberto while in Lima, and who was this person?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

"The Motorcycle Diaries" takes place in Latin America. Write an essay on how this setting enriches the story. Be sure to ask, would the story be the same if it took place somewhere else? What makes it specifically Latin American?

Essay Topic 2

Explore the theme of compassion throughout the memoir.

Essay Topic 3

Throughout the memoir, as well as later in life, Che Guevara cites American capitalism as the source of Latin American strife and offers communism as a solution to the problem. Write an essay that:

1) Defines capitalism.

2) Defines communism.

3) Chooses one ideology and argues for it.

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