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