Milita Life
Revolution in the Streets
Factions and Politics
Life at the front
100

What milita did Orwell fight with rather than the Communist International Brigades? 

POUM

100

What Spanish city did Orwell first encounter revoltionary changes? 

Barcelona 

100

What side did Orwell fight on for Spain? (Republicans or Nationalist)

Republicans

100

What pest did Orwell describe the trenches being full of?

Lice
200

Before join the POUM, what job did Orwell originally come to Spain for? 

Journalist 

200

Who was the first person to tell Orwell that POUM was being suppressed? 

His wife

200

What enemy was the POUM falsely accused of helping? 

Fascist 

200

What body part was injured by a sniper's bullet while Orwell on the front? 

Neck

300

What was the word that Orwell kept hearing when asked about rifles and more training?

Mañana 

300

Which 2 parties did Orwell witness fighting of during the May Days? 

Communist and POUM

300

What class was the bourgeois trying to blend in as in the beginning? 

Proletariat/Working class

300

What animal does Orwell compare the rat's size to be as big as? 

Cats

400

What part of the war did Orwell complain the most about? 

It was boring/no action. 

400

The seizure of what structure caused the May Days?

Telephone Exchange 

400

What division did Orwell need to get his discharge papers stamped? 

29th division

400

What were the 2 main issues with the hospitals near the front line?

1: it provided no treatment unless someone was too wounded to be moved.

2: Nurses were untrained.


500

What earlier war did Orwell rely on the weapons of? 

World War 1 

500
What part of the hotel room did the police never search? 
Bed
500

What propaganda term was POUM accused of being?

Trotskyist

500

What 3 hospitals did Orwell transfer before he ended up in Barcelona? *

Sietamo, Tarragona, and Lerida

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