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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 makes Orwell's patrols difficult?

2. What does Orwell say the trenches stink of?

3. Who is the leader of the nationalists?

4. What do the troops have to cut through to get to the enemy lines?

5. What does Orwell's wife frequently mail him?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what way do conditions become more tolerable in Chapter 8?

2. Why does Orwell enlist in the militia?

3. What power does Franco have?

4. What is an officer's role in the militia?

5. What disgusts Orwell about the weapons he receives?

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

7. How does propaganda prove successful on both sides?

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

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

10. What does Orwell do once he reaches his trench?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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

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