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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 color did the Anarchists paint the trams and taxis?

2. How do Orwell and his troops respond when the nationalists fire at them?

3. What is on top of each hilltop?

4. Who is the leader of the nationalists?

5. What is the name of the army unit that arrives on the Aragon in June, 1937?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the Italian militiaman influence Orwell?

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

3. What does Orwell observe as he travels through Spain?

4. Who is POUM?

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

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

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

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

9. What is the Popular Army?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine the book's chronological setting.

1. What were the main concerns during the 1930s? How does the author express these concerns?

2. How would the author change the book if it was set in today's society?

Essay Topic 2

What is the difference between Trotskyism and Stalinism? Why were the USSR so involved in the Spanish Civil War? What effect did their involvement have on the outcome of the war?

Essay Topic 3

Choose one of the following groups and state their political ideology and involvement in the Spanish Civil War.

1. POUM.

2. CNT.

3. The Popular Army.

4. The Civil guards.

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