Animal Farm

Animal Farm

Tactics, Comrades, Tactics!

The lesser animals seem to believe just about anything Napoleon or Squealer tells them. That's because the pigs are using three techniques to control or influence the animals.

• fallacies - false information

• force - scare tactics or threats

• slogans - repetition of simple ideas in order to persuade

Poll

Who is most like Leon Trotsky, the Russian leader who wanted what was best not for himself, but for society?

• Napoleon

• Snowball

• Squealer

• Boxer

Poll

Who is most like the Russian dictator, Joseph Stalin, who used manipulation and terror to destroy his opposition?

• Napoleon

• Snowball

• Squealer

• Boxer

Multiple Choice

What control technique is being used?

The sheep frequently break out into a tremendous cry of "Four legs good, two legs bad."

• fallacies

• force

• slogans

Multiple Choice

What control technique is being used?

Four porkers start to protest Napoleon's takeover but stop when the dogs growl at them.

• fallacies

• force

• slogans

Multiple Choice

What control technique is being used?

Squealer says "discipline" is the watchword or the enemy that will take back Animal Farm. Loyalty and obedience are of utmost importance.

• fallacies

• force

• slogans

Multiple Choice

What control technique is being used?

Squealer says that Napoleon never opposed the windmill and actually had wanted it from the beginning.

• fallacies

• force

• slogans

Multiple Choice

What control technique is being used?

Sunday work on the windmill is strictly voluntary, but if an animal chooses not to work, his or her rations will be cut in half.

• fallacies

• force

• slogans

Multiple Choice

What control technique is being used?

Squealer says that a resolution against trade had never been passed or even suggested.

• fallacies

• force

• slogans

Multiple Choice

What control technique is being used?

Napoleon says Snowball is responsible for the destruction of the windmill, and Napoleon says they belong to Snowball.

• fallacies

• force

• slogan

Multiple Choice

What control technique is being used?

Squealer says Snowball is a dangerous character and a bad influence.

• fallacies and force

• force and slogan

• none

Conflict

Animal Farm like any well-written story, contains conflict. A conflict is a struggle between two opposing forces. Conflicts generate interest - they grab your attention and make you want to keep reading. Conflicts often develop when a character has some motivation - a purpose or goal-which clashes with an opponent's motivation.

Multiple Select

Napoleon announces that Animal Farm will begin trading with its neighbors. Most animals feel uneasy about this, and the four young porkers timidly protest. Which is Napoleon's motivation?

• to get supplies that can't be produced at the farm.

• to avoid association with humans.

Multiple Select

Clover learns that the pigs are sleeping in beds and believes this is against the Fourth Commandment. Squealer argues that the commandment forbids sleeping in beds with sheets. What is Squealer's motivation?

• to obey the commandments

• to confuse and cover up so that the pigs can continue sleeping in beds.