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 Questions 42-46 487

    George Orwell was born in Bengal, India, in 1903. His parents were members of the British Civil Service in India, and Orwell followed in their 42 when as a young man he joined the Imperial Police in Burma. But ironically Orwell’s experience as a policeman in Burma turned him against British colonialism, as he 43 in a famous essay, “Shooting an Elephant.” Indeed, he became a 44 socialist but a fiercely anti-autocratic one. In the mid-1930s, like many left-wing intellectuals and writers, he went to Spain to fight with the International Brigade in 45 of the recently elected Popular Front government, then under military attack by Fascist forces led by the ultimately victorious General Franco. Orwell was seriously wounded in the Spanish Civil War, and when the Spanish Communists, under orders from Moscow, attempted to 46 out their allies on the left, he fought against them, finally fleeing for his life.