1. What did the liberators create from the ruins of the first revolution?
A.
They created a pincer movement on a continental scale.
B.
They created a second movement of independence.
C.
They created a movement converging from north and south on the heart of the Spanish power in Peru.
2.
Which movement did San Martin lead?
A.
The southern movement.
B.
The northern movement.
C.
The converging movement.
3.
Who did he replace in the battered Army of the North?
A.
Martin Miguel de Güemes
B.
Manuel Belgrano
C.
Simon Bolivar
4.
Which was the hallmark of his military success?
A.
He clothed ‘the naked army’, paid it, and finally trained it.
B.
He securied the defences of the north-west.
C.
His organising ability and concern for officer quality.
5.
Why did San Martin consider Güemes as his most reliable ally?
A.
Because his guerrilla forces were the most effective means of waging a guerra de recursos on the royalist army.
B.
Because he was inspired by Belgrano.
C.
Because he was the valiant caudillo of Salta.
6.
Which was the flawed strategy San Martin left aside?
A.
To see experienced soldiers and advisers as his enemies' allies.
B.
To see experienced soldiers and advisers as his allies.
C.
To attempt to carry independence from Buenos Aires to Lima by way of Upper Peru.
7.
What did he do when he set up his headquarters in Mendoza?
A.
He received the governorship of Cuyo.
B.
He created the Army of the Andes.
C.
He left the Army of the North.
8.
Which was not the true strategical line of the South American revolution?
A.
The northern route to Peru.
B.
The Upper Peru was a barrier, not an opening to Lima.
C.
The southern route to Peru.
9.
Why did he think that?
A.
Because the central government told him that.
B.
Because closed as it was by the terrain, the altitude, the hostility of the local population, all of which made Upper Peru a barrier not an opening to Lima.
C.
Because Güemes told him that.
10.
Which was the way ahead?
A.
A gigantic invasion through Upper Peru.
B.
A gigantic movement through Chile.
C.
A gigantic flanking movement across the Andes to Chile, then up the Pacific in a seaborne invasion of Peru.
11.
Which was Maitland’s plan of attack on the Spanish Empire?
A.
To cross the Andes, defeat the Spaniards in Chile, and then dispatch a further expedition to emancipate Peru.
B.
To capture Buenos Aires.
C.
To establish a base in Mendoza.
12.
How does Terragno explain the extraordinary similarity between Maitland’s plan and San Martin’s campaign?
A.
He says that San Martin copied Sir Thomas Maitland's plan.
B.
He said that Sir Thomas Maitland copied San Martin's plan.
C.
He says that it is ‘probable’ that San Martín knew of the plan from his contact with British officers.
13.
Why was the occupation of Chile the highest priority?
A.
Because Peru will be free, and soldiers will advance with greater success.
B.
Because it was the country, if skilfully managed, that was capable of determining the fate of the revolution.
C.
Because it will fall, starved of supplies.
14.
What was to “think big” to San Martin?
A.
To think big was to replace a national objective by a continental one.
B.
To think big was to realise that Peru cannot be taken without first making sure of Chile.
