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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 is erected in the city the next morning?

2. Why does Orwell decide to stop trying to help Kopp?

3. What country does Orwell travel to at the end of the book?

4. Who raids Orwell's hospital room?

5. What does the Spanish government order everyone to surrender?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Kopp getting no help from the Belgian government?

2. How does Orwell hide from the police?

3. How does Orwell get his wound examined?

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

5. Why does Orwell decide the Spanish Civil War is still important?

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

7. How has Barcelona changed when Orwell returns?

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

9. Why does Orwell want to start fighting in Madrid?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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?

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