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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the POUM travel to from Barbastro?
(a) Madrid.
(b) Zaragoza.
(c) Sietamo.
(d) Alcubierre.

2. At what kind of fighting do the militia units prove most effective?
(a) Defensive.
(b) Operative.
(c) Offensive.
(d) Trench.

3. Who leads Orwell against the the Fascist lines?
(a) Jacques Wren.
(b) Georges Kopp.
(c) Torre Fabian.
(d) Horace Potts.

4. What does Orwell say the Anarchists scrawled in every wall in Catalonia?
(a) A British flag.
(b) A hammer and sickle.
(c) A swasticker.
(d) A Spanish flag.

5. What is the name of the newspaper the Fascists drop?
(a) Heraldo de Aragun.
(b) Ciao.
(c) Independento.
(d) Heraldo de Catalon.

6. Why do people prefer the Popular Army to the militia?
(a) It has better living conditions.
(b) It is structured.
(c) It has better weapons.
(d) It has a goal.

7. Where does Orwell's unit march to?
(a) Monflorite.
(b) Barcelona.
(c) Zaragoza.
(d) Huesca.

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

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

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

11. Where does Orwell's POUM unit travel to from Sietamo?
(a) Mauser.
(b) Madrid.
(c) Zaragoza.
(d) Alcubierre.

12. How does Orwell try to kill the fleeing Fascist?
(a) By shooting him.
(b) By throwing an axe at him.
(c) By bayoneting him.
(d) By beating him around the head.

13. What does Orwell's wife frequently mail him?
(a) Books.
(b) Clothes.
(c) Letters.
(d) Care packages.

14. Where do the Fascists mount a counter attack from?
(a) The air.
(b) The top.
(c) Under the ground.
(d) The flanks.

15. Why was Orwell's mission in Chapter 7 deemed a success?
(a) The Fascists had to call on external help.
(b) It drew troops away from Huesca.
(c) They did not lose any men.
(d) They showed the Fascists how serious they were.

Short Answer Questions

1. What rations end entirely in Chapter 8?

2. What do the Republicans do with the Fascists' unexploded bombs?

3. What kind of insect rises from the ground?

4. Why does most of the Fascists' ammunition stay unexploded?

5. What are officers regarded as in the militia?

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