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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. Whose political ideology did the POUM follow?

2. Why were the streets of Catalonia dimly lit at night?

3. What does the Heraldo de Aragun contain information about?

4. Who is the leader of the nationalists?

5. What unit does Orwell's English paper allow him to join?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How do the Fascists force Orwell and his troops back to their own trenches?

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

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

5. Why does Orwell enlist in the militia?

6. What is the Republican's plan to ambush the Fascists?

7. How do the newspapers report the Fascist attack?

8. How does propaganda prove successful on both sides?

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

10. What flags do the different sides fly?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What was Orwell fighting for? Did Orwell genuinely believe what he fighting for? Is it essential for a soldier to believe in the war cause?

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

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?

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