WorksheetsAnimal Farm Test Review
Total questions: 45
Worksheet time: 50mins
Animal Farm is written in __________________ point of view.
First person
Second person
Third person limited omniscient
Fourth person
The inciting incident of the book is when:
Boxer collapses after working hard to rebuild the windmill for the third time.
Old Major has a dream that offers him a vision of the future
The pigs write down Old Major's ideas in the form of commandments
The animals rebel and drive Mr. Jones from the farm
Each of the following is a rising action in the book EXCEPT:
The Battle of Cowshed
The Rebellion
Snowball sabotaging the windmill
Snowball organizing classes to teach the animals to read.
A climax of Animal Farm is when:
Napoleon has Snowball run off of the farm.
The sheep bleat “Four legs good, two legs BETTER” while the pigs walk on their hind legs.
Mollie has Benjamin read the seven commandments on the barn, but they find only one: “All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.”
The animals successfully win the Battle of the Windmill, although the windmill is destroyed.
Each of the following is a falling action in the book EXCEPT:
Squealer teaches the sheep to say "Four legs good, two legs better!"
Mr. Whymper works as an intermediary between Animal Farm and the human world.
Mr. Frederick’s men try to take back the farm, but are driven off.
The veterinarian comes to treat Boxer after he falls ill.
The following is an example of a falling action in the book:
Napoleon takes over another farm.
The pigs and men are indistinguishable to the other animals.
Mr. Frederick and Napoleon make a pact to take over Pilkington’s farm.
Mr. Jones and Napoleon strike a deal and run the farm together
The resolution of the story is that:
The animals live in worse circumstances than they did before the rebellion.
The animals live in the same circumstances as they did before the rebellion.
The animals live in better circumstances than they did before the rebellion
Humans will take over the farm and set everything right again.
Squealer uses each of the following ways to control the animals EXCEPT:
Telling the animals that the government will come and take over the farm if they question Napoleon’s leadership
Lies about events that occurred in the past (e.g. Snowball was a traitor)
Confusing explanations (e.g. why pigs can sleep in bed) and threats (e.g. Jones will come back)
Changing the commandments on the barn wall
An example of character vs. character conflict in Animal Farm is:
Napoleon and Snowball constantly disagreeing until Snowball is run out
The hens staging a rebellion over the sale of their eggs
The windmill getting knocked over by the strong winds
Mollie hiding when the Battle of the Cowshed was happening
An example of character vs. society conflict in Animal Farm is:
Clover realizes that the pigs shouldn’t be walking on two legs.
Napoleon realizes that Mr. Frederick swindled him out of the timber.
Mollie leaves Animal Farm because she doesn’t like the rules.
Boxer works harder even though he knows he isn’t well.
When the reader finds out that Napoleon has been training Jesse and Bluebell’s puppies to be his vicious guard dogs, the reader can infer that:
Squealer has been keeping the animals confused on purpose
Jesse and Bluebell wouldn’t be good mothers
Napoleon has long been planning to gain all the power on Animal Farm
The animals secretly wish that Mr. Jones would come back
Each of the following are examples of themes found in Animal Farm EXCEPT:
Animals make terrible leaders
Education is important; people can more easily take advantage of those without it.
People who are kept in ignorance are easily controlled.
Democracy is important; it keeps any one person/group from getting too much power.
Napoleon uses the each of the following to control the animals EXCEPT:
creating elaborate ceremonies
Keeping the animals busy with lots of work
Telling the animals about Sugar Candy Mountain
Encouraging the animals to worship him
Ordering violent acts against “traitors”
The following are all examples of foreshadowing in the story EXCEPT:
A. All the animals working together to bring in the harvest
The pigs moving into the farm house
Napoleon wrecking Snowball’s plans for the windmill
Napoleon hiring an intermediary, Mr. Whymper.
George Owell based his allegory on the events that he saw taking place in
Russia, which became the Soviet Union.
the Colonies, which became the United States.
England, which became Great Britain.
Germany, which became East and West Germany.
Napoleon is written to symbolize
Adolph Hitler
Tzar Nicholas Romanov
George Orwell
Joseph Stalin
George Orwell wrote the character Boxer to symbolize A
Leon Trotsky--who Joseph Stalin saw as a rival and ran out of Russia
The Russian upper class who liked their lives under Tzar Nicholas's rule.
The Russian peasants--who did the work and were loyal to Joseph Stalin
The secret police (KGB)--who were loyal to Joseph Stalin and worked hard to keep people from rebelling against him.
An example of character vs. self conflict occurs when _________
Mr. Jones is run off the farm by the animals
Boxer finds it hard to accept that Snowball is a traitor.
The sheep drown out Snowball when he tries to make a speech
The windmill falls down after the storm.
Orwell’s cynical attitude and tone toward the events and characters in the story is closest of that to that of___________. In other words, 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
The closing line of Animal Farm means that the animals have
Lost the ability to discern who is a friend and who is a foe by trading one tyrant for another
At last reached an agreement with their former masters
Exchanged ineffective tyrant for far more effective leaders
Realized the honesty in Napoleon and the dishonesty in the humans
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
Napoleon has sold the farm back to Mr. Jones
The complete return to corrupt human values and vices
“They were fine…willing workers and good comrades, but very stupid. None of them proved able to learn the alphabet beyond the letter B. They accepted everything that they were told about the Rebellion and the principles of Animalism…” Who is Orwell really criticizing here?
Humans who aren’t intelligent enough to vote
Humans who blindly trust the government
Animals who blindly trust the government
Napoleon and Squealer’s manipulation of the animals
If you wanted to best prove that Boxer being sent to the knackers is reverting to the conditions on the farm when Jones was in charge, which evidence would you use?
“Our lives are miserable, laborious, and short. We are born, we are given just so much food as will keep breath in our bodies…and the very instant that our usefulness has come to an end we are slaughtered with hideous cruelty
“No animal in England knows the meaning of happiness or leisure after he is a year old”
“The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth”
“Because nearly the whole of the produce of our labour is stolen from us by human beings”
Mollie’s character and eventual actions most likely represent:
Superficial citizens who complained about the new government but still did their par
Dedicated citizens who worked hard for their country
Dedicated citizens who eventually felt manipulated by their own government
Superficial citizens who preferred life before the rebellion
The passage that most reveals that Frederick represents Hitler is
“Frederick, it was said, intended to bring against them twenty men all armed with guns, and he had already bribed the…police”
“Terrible stories were leaking out…about the cruelties that Frederick practiced upon his animals. He had flogged an old horse to death, he starved his cows, he had killed a dog by throwing it into the furnace…”
"The animals distrusted Pilkington, but greatly preferred him to Frederick”
“The both feared and hated [Frederick]”
George Orwell’s real name is Eric Blair. He most likely used a pen name because
By depicting him as a pig, Orwell mocked the father of communism and didn’t want to offended the communists
He felt that George Orwell sounded more like an author’s name
By depicting him as a pig, Orwell insulted a very powerful and cruel leader and wanted to protect himself
He wrote Animal Farm as a joke
Squealer is employing ____ when he "explains" that he was at Boxer's bedside at the hospital and "he whispered in my ear that his sole sorrow was to have passed on before the windmill was finished. 'Forward, comrades!' he whispered. "forward in the name of the Rebellion. Long live Animal Farm! Long live Comrade Napoleon! Napoleon is always right.' Those were his very last words, comrades."
Logos
Ethos
Pathos
Squealer says he was at Boxer's bedside at the hospital. Squealer recounts Boxer's final words the following way: "he whispered in my ear that his sole sorrow was to have passed on before the windmill was finished. 'Forward, comrades!' he whispered. "forward in the name of the Rebellion. Long live Animal Farm! Long live Comrade Napoleon! Napoleon is always right.' Those were his very last words, comrades." The reader can infer that a central reason Squealer says this is to
keep the animals happy
motivate them to rebuild the windmill
help them deal with their grief
question life on Animal Farm
After Boxer is taken away Squealer relates the following "It had come to his knowledge, he said, that a foolish and wicked rumor had been circulated at the time of Boxer's removal. Some of the animals had noticed that the van which took Boxer away was marked "horse Slaughterer," and had actually jumped to the conclusion that Boxer was being sent to the knacker's. It was almost unbelievable, said Squealer, that any animal could be so stupid. Surely, he cried indignantly, whisking his tail and skipping from side to side, surely they knew their beloved Leader, Comrade Napoleon, better than that?" Squealer is using which rhetorical strategy?
Logos
Ethos
Pathos
When Napoleon sells Boxer to the knackers, the reader is meant to understand I) Karl Marx betrayed the people who worked hard to fight for freedom in Russia. II) only those who are educated are safe from the horrible life on Animal Farm. III) Stalin betrayed the working people who were loyal to him in the same immoral ways. IV) loyalty is not valuable to Napoleon. As soon as someone is no longer useful to him, he will betray him. A.B.X C. D.
I and II
II and III
III and IV
I and IV
In the second to last paragraph the pigs and humans are having a party in the farm house. The following occurs: "There were shoutings, bangings on the table, sharp suspicious glances, furious denials. The source of the trouble appeared to be that Napoleon and Mr. Pilkington had each played an ace of spades simultaneously." One of the BEST inference the reader can make is that
the pigs and people will continue to double cross each other
the pigs and people have created a strong political alliance
the pigs and people will work together well in the future
the pigs and people have a conflict that needs to be dealt with
By chapter ten, the seven commandments have become: All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. From this the reader can infer that
Old Major's Dream is dead.
This doesn't make sense
The first independent clause in the sentence is meant to pacify the animals.
"some animals" refers to the pigs
All of the above
A selection from chapter 7 includes the following: "Hitherto the animals had had little or no contact with Whymper on his weekly visits: now, however, a few selected animals, mostly sheep, were instructed to remark casually in his hearing that rations had been increased. In addition, Napoleon ordered the almost empty bins in the store-shed to be filled nearly to the brim with sand, which was then covered up with what remained of the grain and meal. On some suitable pretext Whymper was led through the store-shed and allowed to catch a glimpse of the bins. He was deceived, and continued to report to the outside world that there was no food shortage on Animal Farm." From this, the reader is to infer that Napoleon and the pigs are
concerned that Mr. Jones will come back if they are not able to produce enough grain.
seeking approval from the other animals regarding how well they are running the farm
worried that Mr. Whymper will create a bad deal with Frederick or Pilkington.
manipulating Mr. Whymper so that he will spread the word that Animal Farm is successful.
Napoleon says the following the first time the windmill is destroyed. “Comrades,” he said quietly, “do you know who is responsible for this? Do you know the enemy who has come in the night and overthrown our windmill? SNOWBALL!” he suddenly roared in a voice of thunder. “Snowball has done this thing! In sheer malignity, thinking to set back our plans and avenge himself for his ignominious expulsion, this traitor has crept here under cover of night and destroyed our work of nearly a year. Comrades, here and now I pronounce the death sentence upon Snowball. ‘Animal Hero, Second Class,’ and half a bushel of apples to any animal who brings him to justice. A full bushel to anyone who captures him alive!” He says this because he understands that
I) Blaming Snowball will bring the animals together because they share an enemy in common.
II) Snowball is jealous of Napoleon's power and success. III) The animals won't feel excited about rebuilding the windmill if they realize that their work was unsuccessful. IV)The humans will respect the farm if they see the animals have built a windmill.
I, II
I and III
I and IV
II and III
III and IV
When George Orwell tried to publish Animal Farm, it was rejected by many publishers. In one rejection letter an editor critiqued the writing saying: "your pigs are far more intelligent than the other animals, and therefore the best qualified to run the farm." Choose the best refutation for this argument:
The book seeks to convey the message that intelligence is not the most important factor in choosing who should rule.
The book seeks to convey the message that manipulation of the animals is wrong and those in charge shouldn't do so.
The book seeks to convey the message that it is wrong to try to better our lives when our economy is strong.
The book seeks to convey the message that leaders who are careless but more kind are the best leaders.
Who said it? “Comrades, you have heard already about the strange dream that I had last night…I have something else to say…
(a)
Who said it?
“I will work harder!”
(a)
“Donkeys live a long time. None of you has ever seen a dead donkey.”
(a)
“And shall I still be allowed to wear ribbons in my mane?”
(a)
“You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us actually dislike milk and apples… We pigs are brainworkers…Day and night we are watching over your welfare. Do you know what would happen if we pigs failed our duty? Jones would come back…surely there is no one among you who wants to see Jones come back?”
(a)
“Four legs good, two legs better!”
(a)
“Gentlemen I will give you the same toast as before, but in a different form. Fill your glasses to the brim. Gentlemen, here is my toast: To the prosperity of The Manor Farm!"
(a)
“In Sugar Candy Mountain it was Sunday seven days a week, clover was in season all the year round, and lump sugar and linseed cake grew on the hedges.”
(a)
"Comrade those ribbons that you are so devoted to are the badge of slavery. Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than ribbons?"
(a)
“My sight is failing. Even when I was young I could not have read what was written there. But it appears to me that that wall looks different. Are the Seven Commandments the same as they used to be Benjamin?”
(a)
