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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. What is Anselmo doing as he walks back toward Pablo's camp?

2. What is the name of the restaurant where Robert Jordan met the peasant Spanish commanders when he first joined the movement?

3. The two weak links, according to Agustin, are which characters?

4. Whose movements does Robert Jordan watch through a pair of field glasses as he studies the bridge?

5. Anselmo cannot write so Robert Jordan suggests that he do this instead to indicate enemy movement.

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Maria?

2. Is Sordo afraid to die? Explain.

3. Does Robert Jordan believe that men can see their fate? Why or why not?

4. How does Robert Jordan respond when Maria asks if he is a communist?

5. Why is Agustin relieved that he did not fire at all four horsemen, as he easily could?

6. What has made Joaquin sad, so much that he begins to cry?

7. How does Primivito react to the outcome of the fighting at Sordo's?

8. Why does Robert Jordan tell Primivito that they will do nothing about the attack on Sordo?

9. What does Pilar reminisce about when she sits down to eat with Fernando?

10. What happens to the men on the hill after the planes have passed?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare/Contrast: Pablo becomes more and more cowardly as the novel progresses. At one point Robert Jordan thinks he has not drank as much as he claims to have. Discuss Pablo's fatal flaw and how he can be contrasted with Anselmo, who is also afraid, but acts out his duty regardless.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss salvation. What does it mean to be redeemed? Is redemption something that is bestowed upon you or do you rely on the mercy of others to provide salvation? Use Maria's personal story as your example. Use evidence from the text.

Essay Topic 3

Describe the barbarianism that is displayed during the taking of the hilltop at Sordos? Does this type of action define fascism itself or does it define the dark culture of Spain? How so? How does this practice relate to other cultures in times of war? (i.e Native Americans, scalping, etc). Explain your answer.

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