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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. Guerrilla bands have in the past underutilized who, according to Guevara?
(a) Children.
(b) Younger men.
(c) Older men.
(d) Women.

2. Sabotage on a national scale should be aimed principally at destroying what?
(a) Ammunition.
(b) Weaponry.
(c) Communications.
(d) Intelligence.

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

4. Guevara writes that "almost all the popular movements undertaken against dictators in recent times have suffered from the same fundamental fault of" what?
(a) Haste in action.
(b) Inadequate preparation.
(c) Untrained troops.
(d) Bad weaponry.

5. What does Guevara write should be jealously guarded within the guerrilla organization?
(a) Clothing and food.
(b) Information.
(c) Weapons.
(d) Armaments.

Short Answer Questions

1. Aside from training in the basic skills of soldiering, the maximum amount of time should be spent on indoctrination in what?

2. What should constantly shift location within the guerrilla organization according to Guevara?

3. Who served as U.S. Secretary of State under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1959?

4. Chapter 3: Organization of the Guerrilla Front begins with a discussion of the creation and maintenance of a good ___________ system.

5. What item does Guevara express is absolutely as essential to the guerrilla as are proper weapons and ammunition?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Guevara write of the role of women in guerrilla movements?

2. How does Guevara broach the subject of the screening of recruits?

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

4. What state-run organizations did Castro install in Cuba? How were old laws regarded?

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

6. How does Guevara define sabotage? How does it differ from terrorism?

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

8. What will the bulk of training new recruits consist of, according to Guevara? What is incorporated as the movement progresses?

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

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

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