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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does most of the Fascists' ammunition stay unexploded?
(a) It is not thrown with enough force.
(b) It is too cold.
(c) It is badly made.
(d) It is too old.

3. What is on top of each hilltop?
(a) A machine gunner.
(b) A head quarters.
(c) A tank.
(d) A flag.

4. What city do the anarchists attack in June?
(a) Barcelona.
(b) Zaragoza.
(c) Huesca.
(d) Madrid.

5. Members of which army does Orwell say swagger around Barcelona?
(a) The Popular Army.
(b) The Fascist Army.
(c) The German Army.
(d) The Militia.

6. What is the name of the other Englishman that is transferred to Monte Oscuro with Orwell?
(a) Trottman.
(b) Williams.
(c) Yardley.
(d) Smith.

7. What are the Popular Army officers armed with?
(a) Pistols.
(b) Daggers.
(c) Rifles.
(d) Truncheons.

8. Which of the following groups supports General Franco?
(a) The British government.
(b) The Catholic Church.
(c) The militia.
(d) The Jewish rabbis.

9. What starts to make life in the trenches more pleasant in Chapter 8?
(a) The end of the ammunition.
(b) A visit from the soldier's wives.
(c) The reopening of the postal system.
(d) The weather.

10. What does Orwell use to make a makeshift wall?
(a) Boxes of ammunition.
(b) Sandbags.
(c) Unexploded bombs.
(d) Mud.

11. Where is Orwell sent to at the end of Chapter 3?
(a) Barcelona.
(b) Zaragoza.
(c) Huesca.
(d) Madrid.

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

13. What two languages can Kopp speak?
(a) English and French.
(b) Spanish and German.
(c) Spanish and English.
(d) Italian and French.

14. What queue does Orwell describe as often hundreds of yards long?
(a) The sweet queue.
(b) The cigarette queue.
(c) The bread queue.
(d) The meat queue.

15. What two languages does Orwell speak fluently?
(a) English and French.
(b) Spanish and French.
(c) Arabic and Russian.
(d) English and German.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose political ideology did the POUM follow?

2. Where do they find out the two men are after they go looking for them in Chapter 7?

3. Where do the soldiers bathe?

4. Who is the leader of the nationalists?

5. Where is Orwell transferred to in Chapter 3?

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