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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. What kind of bird do the peasants like to hunt?
(a) Crows.
(b) Ducks.
(c) Quails.
(d) Geese.

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

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

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

5. Which military group in Spain did Stalin suppress?
(a) FAI.
(b) CNC.
(c) JOUPE.
(d) POUM.

Short Answer Questions

1. What form of transport does Orwell take to Lyrida?

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

3. What does the militia attack in late March?

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

5. What color did the Anarchists paint the trams and taxis?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Orwell's situation change at the beginning of Chapter 4?

2. Who is the PSUC?

3. How are the militia soldiers organized?

4. What flags do the different sides fly?

5. How does propaganda prove successful on both sides?

6. What is Orwell's role as a Cabo?

7. How do Orwell and his troops secure a trench area?

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

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

10. What does Orwell observe as he travels through Spain?

(see the answer keys)

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