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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 does Orwell use to make a makeshift wall?

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

3. Whose political ideology did the POUM follow?

4. Which Spanish political party was under Communist control?

5. Which of the following flags do the Republicans fly?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did USSR gain control of the Republican regions of the country?

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

3. How do the attacks between the Fascists and the Republicans prove ineffectual in Chapter 6?

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

5. How did the Italian militiaman influence Orwell?

6. What flags do the different sides fly?

7. Why is the front such a miserable place to live?

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

9. Who is the PSUC?

10. Describe the conditions of the trenches.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How did George Orwell view the 20th century? What impact has his ideas had on world history? Has his impact been mainly positive, or mainly negative?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Compare Orwell to the person he was at the beginning of the book to the person he is at the end.

1. What did Orwell hope to achieve at the beginning of the book?

2. What events changes Orwell's ideas about life?

3. How has Orwell changed by the end of the book?

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