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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Orwell transferred to in Chapter 3?
(a) Monte Oscuro.
(b) Monte Toto.
(c) Monte Rego.
(d) Monte Carlo.

2. Whose political ideology did the POUM follow?
(a) Hitler.
(b) Mussolini.
(c) Stalin.
(d) Trotsky.

3. Who takes all the patients' belongings while Orwell is in hospital?
(a) The visitors.
(b) The doctors.
(c) The orderlies.
(d) The nurses.

4. What unit does Orwell's English paper allow him to join?
(a) SWAT.
(b) POUM.
(c) POPA.
(d) EGAL.

5. Who is the leader of the nationalists?
(a) General Mussolini.
(b) General Goebbels.
(c) General Castro.
(d) General Franco.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Orwell and his troops respond when the nationalists fire at them?

2. What city do the anarchists attack in June?

3. Who does the militia fight in Zaragoza?

4. What does Orwell smoke at the end of Chapter 7?

5. What weapon are Orwell and his troops supplied with?

Short Essay Questions

1. What flags do the different sides fly?

2. What is Barcelona like when Orwell first arrives in 1936?

3. What is the Popular Army?

4. What does Orwell do once he reaches his trench?

5. In what way do conditions become more tolerable in Chapter 8?

6. How do the attacks between the Fascists and the Republicans prove ineffectual in Chapter 6?

7. What power does Franco have?

8. Describe the conditions of the trenches.

9. What is the Republican's plan to ambush the Fascists?

10. What disgusts Orwell about the weapons he receives?

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