1. A 6.

D
2. A 7. C
3. D 8. C
4. C 9.C
5. D 10. D

11. The narrator meets an old man who looks so miserable, shabby, and expressionless that
the narrator is curious and wants to know more about where the old man came from.

12. ” I am seventy-six years old. I have come twelve kilometers now and I think now I can go
no further”. He was too old and he felt that he was not strong enough to continue his
journey.

13. The narrator is a Republican soldier in the civil war whose goal is to explore the bridge
outside and find out to what point the enemy has advanced. When carrying out his duties of
determining the extent of the enemy advance, he finds an old man who is sitting by the side
of the road in the enemy’s path. He talks with the old man, trying to convince him to flee to
safety, but he is constantly distracted by thoughts of the enemy’s advancement. His responses
to the man are often perfunctory or dismissive, such as when the man earnestly and
emotionally inquires about whether the animals he left behind might survive, and the narrator
simply answers, “Why not?” While the narrator does encourage the man to flee, he never
tries to understand who the man is or what might motivate him, and he fairly quickly decides
that, since there is “nothing to do about” the old man, he must leave.

14. The result of the war was the uprooting of all life from the environment that nurtured and
provided peace. The chaos caused by the war brought "persons" who had been living in peace
disturbed. And is this description realistic? yes, because the war that occurred was a proof of
policies that were selfish and non-partisan to the people at that time.

15. ” There was a pontoon bridge across the river”

The short story venue setting is on the pontoon bridge on the Ebro river. A bridge is a symbol
that has two sides, namely, war and peace or death and life. One side is an old man, who
walked twelve kilometers from his hometown San Carlos and he said that he could not go any
further. The other side is a young soldier, who is doing his job by exploring the bridge
 "It was Easter Sunday ..."

Ernest Hemingway showed us that this happened during the Spanish Civil War on Easter
Sunday.

"It is my business to cross the bridge, explore the bridge outside and find out where the
enemy has advanced."

From the quote, we know that the social environment is an environment of capable people
even though they are busy with themselves.

17. Life for him is no longer meaningful and has a function, the cacophony of refugees and
the sound of guns mean nothing. He tries to make up his own meaning and understanding of
the existence of life. Meaning that is different from other people around him. For the Old
Man, there was nothing more to trust in life, so he tried to create a new form, give new
meaning to life, and that meaning was nothing but nothing. Even though the Old Man was
aware that the emptiness he believed in didn't really need to be preserved.