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

2. What kind of weapon does Orwell manage to procure from the black market?

3. What neighborhoods did CNT-FAI and POUM hold?

4. Where is Orwell's wound examined for the first time?

5. What kind of fighting does Kopp tell his men they have been ordered to engage in?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why is visiting Kopp dangerous?

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

5. What trouble is brewing in Barcelona?

6. How does Orwell get back to Barcelona?

7. How does Orwell get his wound examined?

8. How has Barcelona changed in Chapter 13?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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

What does the book express about oppression? In what way did the Communist oppressive methods backfire? Are there any elements of western society you would identify as oppressive?

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