Animal Farm Review

“It’s hard to take your claims seriously because you spend your days playing video games.”

What propaganda technique is used here?

• Testimonial

• Fear

• Unwarranted Extrapolation

• Name-Calling

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“If you don't study, you'll fail your test. Then you will do poorly in the class and your GPA will fall. You won't get into a good college, so you'll never get a decent job and you'll end up poor and homeless.”

What propaganda technique is being used here?

• Glittering Generalities

• Fear

• Unwarranted Extrapolation

• Name-Calling

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Animal Farm is an allegory in that it

• Has a surface level meaning and deeper level meaning represented by symbols

• Is a story about an imaginary revolution by animals

• Was written as a satire

• Involves animals

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Animal Farm is an allegorical satire on...

• The Russian Revolution

• The American Revolution

• World War I

• World War III

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If Orwell were a character in his own book, which character would he be?

• Boxer because he works hard to reveal the truth

• Snowball because he is a good persuasive talker

• Napoleon because he believes that dictatorship is the ideal form of government

• Benjamin because he focuses on the negatives aspects of a failed revolution without providing solutions

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Why did the work of organizing and teaching about the rebellion fall naturally with the pigs?

• They were bossy

• They were clever

• They were fat

• They were intimidating

Which line from Old Major’s speech reveals to us the core message of The Seven Commandments?

• “All men are enemies. All animals are comrades”

• “Man serves the interests of no creature except himself”

• “Remember also that fighting against Man, we must not come to resemble him”

• “Only get rid of Man, and the produce of our labour would be our own”

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Old Major’s dream eventually encourages the animals to…

• Toil patiently

• Revolt against the humans

• Fight to enslave humans

• Memorize “The Beasts of England”

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The revolution of the animals on Animal Farm has what effect on the rest of the animals throughout the country?

• It inspires the other animals to start challenging human authority.

• No effect. The other animals keep on living as they have always lived.

• The other animals become more afraid of humans and what further controls they will place on them.

• The other animals have their own revolution and take over their own farms.

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What leads to the Battle of the Cowshed?

• The farmers’ fear of more animal rebellions

• The farmers’ fear of starvation

• The farmers’ knowledge of secret conspiracies

• The farmers’ knowledge of how much money they could make from Jones’ farm

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