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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. Where is Orwell transferred to in Chapter 3?

2. How do the newspapers report the Fascist attack in Chapter 3?

3. What does Orwell say he has been isolated from for 115 days?

4. Which of the following flags do the Nationalists fly?

5. What form of transport does Orwell's unit take to Barbastro?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are the militia soldiers organized?

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

3. Who is the PSUC?

4. Why does Orwell enlist in the militia?

5. Who is POUM?

6. What disgusts Orwell about the weapons he receives?

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

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

9. What are Orwell's observations about Spanish culture in the opening chapter?

10. How did the Italian militiaman influence Orwell?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose one of Orwell's previous books and contrast it with HOMAGE TO CATALONIA in terms of the following;

1. Style.

2. Structure.

3. Themes.

Essay Topic 2

In what way does Orwell suggest warfare is mostly trivial? Why do people conduct war even though often nothing is happening?

Essay Topic 3

Why does Orwell end the book like he does? Could he have ended the book in another way? What meaning would that new ending have given the book?

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