Robert Jordan is the hero of which novel set in the Spanish Civil War?

• A. The Sun Also Rises
• B. The Old Man and the Sea
• C. For Whom the Bell Tolls
• D. A Farewell to Arms

Answer: (C)

Robert Jordan is the hero in a novel that follows an American dynamiter who joins Republican guerrillas in the Spanish Civil War. The story centers on his mission to blow up a bridge and the moral and personal costs of war in that setting. This is distinct from other famous works: one portrays expatriates grappling with post‑WWI life, not a war hero named Robert Jordan; another focuses on an old fisherman at sea; and the last is a World War I romance set in Italy. Therefore, the novel that places Robert Jordan in the Spanish Civil War is For Whom the Bell Tolls.