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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Orwell say was being systematically destroyed in Catalonia?
(a) Cathredrals.
(b) Government buildings.
(c) Churches.
(d) Museums.

2. What does Orwell say the trenches stink of?
(a) Working men.
(b) Human excrement.
(c) Cigar smoke.
(d) Dead bodies.

3. What kind of weapons is the militia issued?
(a) Pistols.
(b) Machine guns.
(c) Grenades.
(d) Rifles.

4. What are officers regarded as in the militia?
(a) God like.
(b) The first line of attack.
(c) Comrades-in-arms.
(d) A necessary evil.

5. Which of the following flags do the Republicans fly?
(a) Monarchist.
(b) Fascist.
(c) Soviet.
(d) Loyalist.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which military group in Spain did Stalin suppress?

2. What is on top of each hilltop?

3. Who does Orwell describe as a tough looking youth of 26?

4. Whose political ideology did the POUM follow?

5. What is the terrain of no man's land?

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