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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 group is Bob Smilie a part of?

2. What does Orwell describe the Communists political maneuverings as?

3. What group has now been declared an illegal organization?

4. What kind of gun strikes down Orwell?

5. Where will Orwell be fighting if he is transferred to the International Column?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the POUM militiamen react to Orwell's presence at the prison?

2. How does Orwell get his wound examined?

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

4. How do the government troops defuse the situation in Barcelona?

5. How does Orwell hide from the police?

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

7. Why was the working class in Barcelona becoming increasingly resentful?

8. How do Orwell and his wife get back to England?

9. What does the Republican government stand for?

10. What act of bravery does Kopp perform in Chapter 10?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why did Orwell become disillusioned with Communism? What was Orwell's view of Communism before he fought for POUM?

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

Choose one of the following political ideologies and discuss how you think Spain would have evolved if had followed that ideology from the Thirties until now.

1. Anarchism.

2. Fascism.

3. Communism.

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