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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 political leader does Orwell want Spain to reject?

2. Which group in Barcelona does Orwell say can get almost anything?

3. What kind of organization does POUM label PSUC?

4. What does Orwell want to write?

5. From what city do the Assault Guards arrive?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is visiting Kopp dangerous?

2. Why did the government say POUM was a Fascist subversive element?

3. What trouble is brewing in Barcelona?

4. What are the rumors surrounding the attack on the telephone exchange?

5. What is the Sanatorium Maurin?

6. How does Orwell get his wound examined?

7. How are POUM members having problems in Chapter 13?

8. What bad news do the POUM units hear in Chapter 12?

9. What does Orwell think about the Communist tactics in Chapter 10?

10. Why does fighting break out in Barcelona at the beginning of Chapter 10?

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

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 3

Why did Spain become a Fascist country and stay that way for so long? How did the move to Fascism change the country?

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