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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What city does Orwell arrive in on April 26?

2. What does Orwell say he originally came to Spain to do?

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

4. What kind of insect rises from the ground?

5. Which Spanish political party was under Communist control?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is POUM?

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

3. How do the militia and the Fascists fight each other in the trenches near Zaragoza?

4. How did the Italian militiaman influence Orwell?

5. How does the hot weather make life in the trenches intolerable again?

6. Describe the conditions of the trenches.

7. What flags do the different sides fly?

8. Who is the PSUC?

9. What is an officer's role in the militia?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What impact did the Spanish Civil War have on the world politics in the 1930s? Why were British people such as Orwell independently involved in the fighting? What happened to Spain after the Civil War?

Essay Topic 2

Why did Spain become a Fascist country and stay that way for so long? How did the move to Fascism change the country?

Essay Topic 3

What is the difference between Trotskyism and Stalinism? Why were the USSR so involved in the Spanish Civil War? What effect did their involvement have on the outcome of the war?

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