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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 is the name of the hotel Orwell goes to when the fighting breaks out?
(a) Hotel Hooves.
(b) Hotel Falcon.
(c) Hotel Wren.
(d) Hotel Eagle.

2. What neighborhoods did CNT-FAI and POUM hold?
(a) Upper class neighborhoods.
(b) Student neighborhoods.
(c) Jewish neighborhoods.
(d) Working class neighborhoods.

3. What does Orwell say Franco stands for?
(a) Genocide.
(b) The old Feudal order.
(c) A military government.
(d) Colonization.

4. What does Orwell say has ended in defeat?
(a) The fight against Fascism.
(b) The social revolution.
(c) The Upper class revolution.
(d) The fight against Communism.

5. Where does Orwell spend time recuperating in Chapter 13?
(a) The Santorium Folin.
(b) The Sanorium Doggin.
(c) The Sanatorium Maurin.
(d) The Santorium Gaudin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Orwell say a fat man eats while children beg for bread?

2. What kind of weapon does Orwell manage to procure from the black market?

3. To where is Orwell first evacuated?

4. Why is Smilie arrested at the border?

5. Who ordered the attack on the telephone exchange?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Orwell think about the Communist tactics in Chapter 10?

2. Why did the government say POUM was a Fascist subversive element?

3. Why was the working class in Barcelona becoming increasingly resentful?

4. What does the Republican government stand for?

5. How does Orwell hide from the police?

6. Why are snipers a problem in Chapter 12?

7. Why does Orwell decide the Spanish Civil War is still important?

8. Why is Kopp getting no help from the Belgian government?

9. Why does Orwell stop trying to help Kopp?

10. How do the Communists try to suppress POUM?

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