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