Animal Farm STAAR Practice

Napoleon changes the name of Animal Farm to The Manor Farm to symbolize:

• The end of human control over the animals

• The equality of all animals and humans

• The complete return to corrupt human values and vices

• Napoleon has sold the farm back to Mr. Jones

“If she could have spoken her thoughts, it would have been to say…Such were her thoughts, though she lacked the words to express them” (Orwell 95-96). Which of the following themes does this passage best suggest?

• Perfect societies can be achieved if individuals collaborate.

• Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

• The abuse of language is instrumental to the abuse of power.

• Education provides the tools to recognize and speak out against oppression.

“For the time being, certainly, it had been found necessary to make a readjustment of rations (Squealer always spoke of it as a ‘readjustment,’ never as a ‘reduction’), but in comparison with the days of Jones, the improvement was enormous” (Orwell 115). Which of the following themes does this passage best suggest?

• Perfect societies can be achieved if individuals collaborate.

• Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

• The abuse of language is instrumental to the abuse of power.

• Education provides the tools to recognize and speak out against oppression.

Which incident best foreshadows the eventual betrayal of Boxer being sold to the knacker?

• The dogs chasing Snowball, a threat to Napoleon, off of the farm.

• Napoleon “attending to” the buckets of milk.

• Napoleon taking charge of the puppies’ education.

Read the following sentence fragment: “Four legs good, two legs bad.” What effect do the author’s choice of writing a sentence fragment have on the reader?

• The sentence fragment makes the reader know that it is an incomplete thought of the sheep on Animal Farm.

• The sentence fragment helps the reader understand that it is a mantra, or slogan for the sheep on Animal Farm.

• The sentence fragment was an error on the author’s part because it is not proper grammar.

What is theme?

• The main idea of a text

• The author's overall message of a text

• Something repeated throughout a text

What is Animal Farm an allegory for?

• Nazi Germany

• World War I

• Russian Revolution

What is an allegory?

• Story that reveals a hidden meaning

• Indirect or passing reference

• Direct reference in a story

Molly the white mare does not want to give up

• wearing her hat
• sugar and ribbons
• being stroked by man
• entering horse shows

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CCSS.RL.9-10.3

'So the animals trooped down to the hayfield to begin the harvest, and when they came back they noticed that the milk had disappeared.' This is significant because

• The milk had been stolen by one of Jones's men who crept back.
• It is the first sign of the pigs taking something which will benefit only them
• The milk was needed to give the calves
• The milk was off and should have been thrown away