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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 kind of drink do the soldiers have plenty of?

2. What confuses Orwell about the Spanish language in Barcelona?

3. In what part of Spain is Mblaga located?

4. Whose political ideology did the POUM follow?

5. What are officers regarded as in the militia?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What power does Franco have?

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

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

5. How do the newspapers report the Fascist attack?

6. Describe the conditions of the trenches.

7. What is the job of the soldiers on the hilltops?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Why does the propaganda Orwell describes in the book work so well? Would such propaganda have worked so well in other countries? How has propaganda advanced since the Spanish Civil War?

Essay Topic 3

Examine the construction of Orwell's argument.

1. How does he introduce his ideas?

2. How does he construct his ideas to come to logical conclusion?

3. What weaknesses and strengths can you identify in Orwell's argument?

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