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  • 1. What was the name of the old, leaky cabin cruiser used for the assault on Cuba?
A) Granma
B) Maestra
C) Sierra
D) Batista
  • 2. On what date did the revolutionaries set out for Cuba on the Granma?
A) 1955
B) early 1957
C) 25 November 1957
D) 25 November 1956
  • 3. How many men set out on the Granma?
A) 100
B) 40
C) 22
D) 82
  • 4. How many men survived and found each other after the initial attack by Batista's military?
A) 10
B) 82
C) 22
D) 50
  • 5. What did Guevara pick up after laying down his medical supplies during the initial confrontation?
A) A rifle
B) A medical kit
C) A camera
D) A box of ammunition
  • 6. Where did the surviving revolutionaries regroup as a fighting force?
A) Sierra Maestra mountains
B) New York
C) Havana
D) Mexico City
  • 7. Who provided support to the guerrillas from an urban guerrilla network?
A) Time magazine
B) Herbert Matthews
C) Frank País
D) Fulgencio Batista
  • 8. What group provided support to the rebels alongside Frank País and campesinos?
A) Granma crew
B) Batista's military
C) 26 July Movement
D) The New York Times
  • 9. Who wrote the early 1957 interview that presented a mythical image of Castro and the guerrillas?
A) Herbert Matthews
B) Fulgencio Batista
C) Frank País
D) Che Guevara
  • 10. In which publication did the interview confirming Castro was alive appear?
A) Granma
B) Time
C) Sierra Maestra News
D) The New York Times
  • 11. What physical ailment caused Guevara agonizing walnut-sized cysts on his body?
A) A gunshot wound
B) A food allergy
C) An allergy to mosquito bites
D) A tropical fever
  • 12. What percentage of adults were illiterate among the poor subsistence farmers in the Sierra Maestra?
A) 10 percent
B) 82 percent
C) 22 percent
D) 40 percent
  • 13. How did Guevara convince Castro?
A) With weapons and force
B) With competence, diplomacy and patience
C) Through media interviews
D) By publishing a newspaper
  • 14. What did Guevara set up factories to make?
A) Bread
B) Books
C) Grenades
D) Medical supplies
  • 15. What did Guevara build ovens to bake?
A) Grenades
B) Bread
C) Bricks
D) Cysts
  • 16. What did Guevara organize schools to teach illiterate campesinos?
A) Journalism
B) Military tactics
C) To read and write
D) Medicine
  • 17. What did Guevara establish to disseminate information?
A) A television station
B) A newspaper
C) A radio broadcast
D) A medical clinic
  • 18. What magazine dubbed Guevara 'Castro's brain' three years later?
A) Sierra Weekly
B) The New York Times
C) Time
D) Granma
  • 19. To what rank was Guevara promoted by Castro?
A) Comandante
B) General
C) Lieutenant
D) Captain
  • 20. Guevara was appointed Comandante of which army unit?
A) The Granma crew
B) The 26 July Movement
C) The first urban network
D) A second army column
  • 21. To which of his relatives did Guevara send an update letter from San José, Costa Rica?
A) His cousin Carlos
B) His aunt Beatriz
C) His mother
D) His sister
  • 22. Whose image did Guevara swear on in his letter to frighten his conservative relatives?
A) Karl Marx
B) Fidel Castro
C) Jacobo Árbenz
D) Joseph Stalin
  • 23. Which company's dominion did Guevara traverse, convincing him that its capitalist system was disadvantageous?
A) Pan American World Airways
B) Anaconda Copper Mining
C) Standard Fruit Company
D) United Fruit Company
  • 24. Who headed the democratically elected government in Guatemala when Guevara arrived?
A) Carlos Castillo Armas
B) Hilda Gadea
C) Jacobo Árbenz
D) John Foster Dulles
  • 25. How many acres of uncultivated land did the Guatemalan government take from the United Fruit Company?
A) 500,000 acres
B) 225,000 acres
C) 100,000 acres
D) 50,000 acres
  • 26. Which political organization was Hilda Gadea Acosta a member of?
A) 26 July Movement
B) Communist Party of Cuba
C) United Fruit Workers Union
D) Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana
  • 27. Where did the Moncada Barracks attack take place?
A) San José
B) Guatemala City
C) Havana
D) Santiago de Cuba
  • 28. What is the Argentine filler expression 'che' compared to in English?
A) The syllable 'eh'
B) The word 'hey'
C) The word 'well'
D) The syllable 'um'
  • 29. Who provided Guevara with food, lodging, and discussions on Marxism in Russia and China?
A) Helena Leiva de Holst
B) Hilda Gadea Acosta
C) Beatriz Guevara
D) John Foster Dulles
  • 30. What is the title of the poem Guevara dedicated to Helena Leiva de Holst?
A) Canto a Guatemala
B) Invitación al camino
C) A los Andes
D) El Revolucionario
  • 31. In what month and year did a ship carrying weapons from communist Czechoslovakia arrive in Puerto Barrios?
A) July 1953
B) December 1953
C) June 1954
D) May 1954
  • 32. Which country dispatched infantry and light artillery weapons for the Árbenz government in May 1954?
A) China
B) Communist Czechoslovakia
C) The Soviet Union
D) Mexico
  • 33. Which US President tasked the CIA with removing Árbenz from power in 1953?
A) President Kennedy
B) President Roosevelt
C) President Eisenhower
D) President Truman
  • 34. What was the code name of the CIA operation to remove Árbenz from power?
A) Operation Mongoose
B) PBSuccess
C) Operation Zapata
D) Operation PBSHAW
  • 35. Who headed the US-sponsored armed force of refugees and mercenaries against Árbenz?
A) Joseph Stalin
B) Carlos Castillo Armas
C) Jacobo Árbenz
D) John Foster Dulles
  • 36. On what date was Árbenz pressured to resign?
A) 10 December
B) May 24
C) 7 July
D) 27 June
  • 37. Where did Jacobo Árbenz take refuge after the coup?
A) The Argentine consulate
B) The Mexican embassy
C) The Soviet embassy
D) The United Fruit Company headquarters
  • 38. Where did Guevara seek protection after being marked for murder following the coup?
A) The Mexican embassy
B) The Argentine consulate
C) The United Fruit Company office
D) The Czech embassy
  • 39. Where did Guevara make his way after receiving a safe-conduct pass from the consulate?
A) Bolivia
B) Peru
C) Costa Rica
D) Mexico
  • 40. Who did Guevara meet while he was in Mexico?
A) Jacobo Árbenz
B) Joseph Stalin
C) Carlos Castillo Armas
D) Fidel Castro
  • 41. What movement did Guevara join after meeting Castro in Mexico?
A) The United Fruit Workers Union
B) The Cuban Revolution
C) The communist youth militia
D) Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana
  • 42. Who was the visible head of the US aggression against the Árbenz government, according to Guevara?
A) President Eisenhower
B) Jacobo Árbenz
C) John Foster Dulles
D) Carlos Castillo Armas
  • 43. Who wrote that 'It was Guatemala which finally convinced him of the necessity for armed struggle'?
A) Beatriz Guevara
B) Fidel Castro
C) Hilda Gadea
D) Helena Leiva de Holst
  • 44. On what date did Guevara send his letter from San José before leaving for Guatemala?
A) 7 July
B) May 10
C) 10 December
D) 27 June
  • 45. Which of the following countries was NOT visited by Guevara during his journey starting on 7 July 1953?
A) Brazil
B) Bolivia
C) Ecuador
D) Peru
  • 46. On what date did Che Guevara die?
A) 14 May 1928
B) 9 October 1967
C) 12 October 1965
D) 19 April 1961
  • 47. What academic field was Che Guevara studying initially?
A) Engineering
B) Philosophy
C) Medicine
D) Law
  • 48. Whose US-backed dictatorship was overthrown during the Cuban Revolution?
A) Jacobo Árbenz
B) Fulgencio Batista
C) Salvador Allende
D) Augusto Pinochet
  • 49. What type of weapons did Guevara help bring to Cuba, precipitating the 1962 crisis?
A) Long-range bombers
B) Soviet nuclear-armed ballistic missiles
C) American artillery cannons
D) Chemical warheads
  • 50. In what year did Guevara leave Cuba to foment continental revolutions?
A) 1965
B) 1959
C) 1967
D) 1962
  • 51. In which African country did Guevara unsuccessfully try to foment revolution?
A) South Africa
B) Congo-Kinshasa
C) Angola
D) Ghana
  • 52. In which South American country was Guevara captured and executed?
A) Argentina
B) Bolivia
C) Chile
D) Peru
  • 53. Who captured and summarily executed Che Guevara in Bolivia?
A) Cuban rebel fighters
B) United States Marines
C) Argentine military police
D) CIA-assisted Bolivian forces
  • 54. What is the title of the famous photograph of Che Guevara taken by Alberto Korda?
A) The Revolutionary
B) Che in Havana
C) El Comandante
D) Guerrillero Heroico
  • 55. What type of manual did Che Guevara author?
A) Guerrilla warfare manual
B) Medical treatment textbook
C) Agricultural reform guide
D) Diplomatic protocol handbook
  • 56. What genre of book was Guevara's memoir about his motorcycle journey?
A) Best-selling memoir
B) Poetry collection
C) Philosophical essay
D) Historical fiction
  • 57. What kind of incentives did Guevara want to drive the consciousness of a 'new man'?
A) Financial rather than social incentives
B) Capitalist rather than socialist incentives
C) Personal rather than collective incentives
D) Moral rather than material incentives
  • 58. Which successful campaign did Guevara help spearhead in Cuba alongside his government roles?
A) Railway expansion project
B) Universal healthcare rollout
C) Literacy campaign
D) Industrialization drive
  • 59. What military rank did Guevara rise to among the insurgents in Cuba?
A) Lieutenant
B) Sergeant
C) Commander-in-chief
D) Second-in-command
  • 60. In which city was Ernesto Guevara born?
A) Córdoba, Argentina
B) Havana, Cuba
C) Buenos Aires, Argentina
D) Rosario, Argentina
  • 61. Which 18th-century ancestor of Guevara was a Californio landowner in colonial California?
A) El Furibundo
B) Patrick Lynch
C) Ernesto Guevara Lynch
D) Luis María Peralta
  • 62. Which 18th-century ancestor emigrated from Ireland to the Río de la Plata Governorate?
A) Luis María Peralta
B) Patrick Lynch
C) Celia de la Serna y Llosa
D) Vendaval
  • 63. Who stated that Che would talk about Ireland and all the guerrilla warfare that had taken place there?
A) Maureen O'Hara
B) Estudiantes of Córdoba
C) His grandmother
D) Celia de la Serna y Llosa
  • 64. What nickname was used for him early in life?
A) Fuser
B) Vendaval
C) Ernestito
D) El Furibundo
  • 65. Whom did his father staunchly support during the Spanish Civil War?
A) Republicans
B) Monarchists
C) Nationalists
D) Guerrillas
  • 66. As a young man, what career did he contemplate?
A) Irish historian
B) Selling insecticides
C) Landowner in California
D) Professional rugby player
  • 67. What was the brand name of the insecticide mixture he experimented with?
A) Fuser
B) Vendaval
C) Estudiantes
D) Gammaxene
  • 68. Why did he have to abandon his insecticide-selling efforts?
A) When he moved to Rosario
B) After suffering a severe asthmatic reaction
C) Because his father stopped supporting Republicans
D) Due to a rugby injury
  • 69. What medical condition affected him throughout his life?
A) Acute asthma
B) Malaria
C) Chronic fatigue
D) Arthritis
  • 70. Which of the following sports did he NOT enjoy?
A) Cricket
B) Shooting
C) Swimming
D) Golf
  • 71. What was his nickname in rugby due to his aggressive play?
A) Fuser
B) El Furibundo
C) Ernestito
D) Vendaval
  • 72. In what year did he reportedly play for San Isidro Club?
A) 1949
B) 1947
C) 1928
D) 1948
  • 73. In what year did he reportedly play for Yporá Rugby Club?
A) 1949
B) 1947
C) 1928
D) 1948
  • 74. In what year did he reportedly play for Atalaya Polo Club?
A) 1949
B) 1947
C) 1948
D) 1950
  • 75. What position did other sources claim he played at while playing for CUBA?
A) Fullback
B) Fly-half
C) Prop
D) Scrum-half
  • 76. At what age did Guevara begin participating in chess tournaments?
A) 12
B) 15
C) 18
D) 10
  • 77. Which poet's work was Guevara passionate about?
A) William Shakespeare
B) Pablo Neruda
C) Lord Byron
D) Oscar Wilde
  • 78. Which poem by Rudyard Kipling could Guevara recite by heart?
A) If—
B) The Road Not Taken
C) Ozymandias
D) The Raven
  • 79. Whose ideas fascinated Guevara regarding dreams, libido, and narcissism?
A) Bertrand Russell
B) Sigmund Freud
C) Friedrich Nietzsche
D) Karl Marx
  • 80. What was one of Guevara's favorite subjects?
A) Painting
B) Music theory
C) Architecture
D) Philosophy
  • 81. What job did Guevara work for six months on Argentina's freighters and oil tankers?
A) Nurse
B) Cook
C) Engineer
D) Captain
  • 82. Who was Guevara's companion on his 1952 continental motorcycle trek?
A) Pablo Neruda
B) Alberto Granado
C) Dr. Hugo Pesce
D) Karl Marx
  • 83. What was the final goal of Guevara's 1952 motorcycle expedition?
A) San Pablo leper colony
B) Buenos Aires
C) Machu Picchu
D) Chuquicamata copper mine
  • 84. Where was the San Pablo leper colony located?
A) Argentina
B) Peru
C) Colombia
D) Chile
  • 85. Who first introduced Guevara to the work of Karl Marx?
A) Alberto Granado
B) Dr. Hugo Pesce
C) Jorge Icaza
D) Pablo Neruda
  • 86. In which country was Guevara angered by the working conditions at the Chuquicamata copper mine?
A) Argentina
B) Chile
C) Venezuela
D) Peru
  • 87. What type of mine was Anaconda's Chuquicamata mine?
A) Silver
B) Coal
C) Gold
D) Copper
  • 88. Where did Guevara encounter a persecuted communist couple in the desert?
A) Atacama Desert
B) Atacama Forest
C) Andes Mountains
D) Amazon River
  • 89. What book title was based on notes taken during Guevara's motorcycle trip?
A) The Motorcycle Diaries
B) The Latin American Travels
C) Notes of a Medic
D) Continental Liberation
  • 90. In what year was The Motorcycle Diaries published?
A) 2004
B) 1995
C) 1952
D) 1958
  • 91. How did Guevara come to view Latin America by the end of his journey?
A) As an untransformable society
B) As a single entity requiring a continent-wide liberation strategy
C) As a region best governed by foreign powers
D) As a collection of separate, independent nations
  • 92. What job did Guevara hold with Latina News Agency?
A) Investigative journalist
B) News photographer
C) Editor
D) Foreign correspondent
  • 93. According to Hilda's memoir, where did Guevara consider working as a doctor?
A) Asia
B) Guatemala
C) Africa
D) Europe
  • 94. Whose obsession with an elderly washerwoman is described in Hilda's memoir?
A) Ñico López's
B) Guevara's
C) Raúl Castro's
D) Fidel Castro's
  • 95. With whom did Guevara renew his friendship in Mexico?
A) Fidel Castro
B) Simon Reid-Henry
C) Alberto Bayo
D) Ñico López
  • 96. Who described Che and Fidel's relationship as a 'revolutionary friendship that would change the world'?
A) Ñico López
B) Alberto Bayo
C) Simon Reid-Henry
D) Hilda
  • 97. What shared commitment fostered the friendship between Che and Fidel?
A) News photography
B) Medical research
C) Guatemalan agriculture
D) Anti-imperialism
  • 98. What did Guevara believe US-controlled conglomerates had installed and supported around the world?
A) Democratic governments
B) Free press agencies
C) Hospitals and universities
D) Repressive regimes
  • 99. What role did Guevara initially plan to have in the group?
A) News photographer
B) Chief military instructor
C) Combat medic
D) Lead negotiator
  • 100. How long were the arduous marches Guevara and the others underwent during training?
A) 5-hour
B) 10-hour
C) 15-hour
D) 24-hour
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