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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 do the anarchists attack in June?

2. To what city has Orwell's wife moved?

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

4. Which of the following is not a Spanish political party?

5. What is the name of the army unit that arrives on the Aragon in June, 1937?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Orwell's experience of military hospitals in Chapter 6?

2. Who is the PSUC?

3. How does propaganda prove successful on both sides?

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

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

6. How did the Italian militiaman influence Orwell?

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

8. How are the militia soldiers organized?

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

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

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 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?

Essay Topic 3

Examine the book's chronological setting.

1. What were the main concerns during the 1930s? How does the author express these concerns?

2. How would the author change the book if it was set in today's society?

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