Animal Farm Ch. 1 Quiz

Based on the seating while the animals are listening to Old Major speak, who will be the important animals on the farm?

• the sheep
• Benjamin and Clover
• the pigs
• Old Major

What does the word ignominious mean?

• thought deeply about someone or something

• distrustful of human nature

• shameful

• extreme ill-will or hatred between enemies

Old Major tell the animals that ________ is the only real enemy the animals have.

• Mr. Jones
• hunger
• Man
• the butcher

Which word means mysterious or obscure?

• cryptic

• cynical

• scullery

• ensconced

Which phrase is not a motto presented to the animals by Old Major?

• Whatever goes upon two legs in an enemy.  Whatever goes upon four legs or has wings, is a friend.
• All men are enemies. All animals are comrades.
• All habits of Man are evil.
• All animals are equal.

What character in Animal Farm represents Karl Marx, the German philosopher, who created the idea of Communism. 

• Jessie
• Muriel
• Old Major
• Benjamin

What does the word benevolent mean?

• frolic, skip and play

• distrustful of human nature.

• showing kindness

• settled in comfortably

What type of figurative language is the following:

"And then, after a few preliminary tries, the whole farm burst out into Beasts of England in tremendous unison. The cows lowed it, the dog whined it, the sheep bleated it, the horses whinnied it and the ducks quacked it."

• forshadowing

• onomatopoeia

• personification

• hyperbole

What event causes the animals to rebel?

• Mr. Jones forgets to feed the animals

• Mr. Jones is planning on selling the farm

• Moses' exciting stories

Which word means to skip about in play.

• parasitical

• gambol

• cryptic

• ignominious