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WorksheetsAnimal Farm Whole Novel Review
Total questions: 100
Worksheet time: 50mins
Who is "a large, rather fierce-looking Berkshire boar, the only Berkshire on the farm, not much of a talker, but with a reputation for getting his way"?
Old Major
Snowball
Napoleon
Squealer
Who "seemed quite unchanged since the Rebellion"?
Mollie
Benjamin
Boxer
Napoleon
Who is “vivacious”, “inventive” and “quick in speech”?
Snowball
Squealer
Old Major
Minimus
Who said “surely there is no one among you who wants to see Jones come back?”
Snowball
Moses
Napoleon
Squealer
Who asked “will there still be sugar after the Rebellion?”
Mollie
Muriel
Clover
Benjamin
Who claimed of Animal Farm that “the animals there practised cannibalism and tortured one another”?
Mr Jones
Frederick and Pilkington
Mr Whymper
All of the above
Name the setting: where Old Major gave his speech to the other animals.
The farmhouse
The pasture
The barn
The cowshed
Name the setting: where the animals agree not to enter, after the rebellion
The farmhouse
The pasture
The barn
The cowshed
Name the setting: an important battle took place near here
The farmhouse
The pasture
The barn
The cowshed
Name the setting: where is the windmill built?
The pasture
The knoll (hill)
The spinney
The yard
Which animals spread the word about Animalism to other farms?
Ravens
Geese
Sparrows
Pigeons
How does Napoleon get more money for the windmill?
He sells eggs laid by the hens
He sells timber and eggs
He sells jam and timber
He sells bacon and eggs
Who symbolises Josef Stalin?
Napoleon
Boxer
Mr Jones
Old Major
Who does Snowball symbolise in the Russian Revolution?
Lenin
Stalin
Tsar Nicholas
Trotsky
Who might Boxer represent?
The middle class
The working class
Trotsky
Stalin
Who represents Tsar Nicholas I?
Napoleon
Snowball
Mr Jones
Old Major
What does it mean when Orwell tells us that Squealer could "turn black into white"?
He has magic powers
He paints over the 7 commandments
He is very persuasive
He is stupid
Except for the pigs, which animals on the farm can read?
Benjamin and Muriel
Muriel and Mollie
Boxer, Clover and Benjamin
All of the animals can read
Which of these is an example of CORRUPTION?
When the pigs break the commandments but cover it up by changing them
When Boxer is sent off to the horse slaughterer but Squealer tells the animals he's gone to hospital
When the pigs take the milk and apples but don't share them with everyone
All of the above
Symbolized the propaganda department, used to manipulate the people through propaganda.
Napoleon
Snowball
Moses
Squealer
A story that can be read on two distinct levels.
allegory
short story
pretend
propaganda
A government controls all material and food and is supposed to split fairly among people.
communism
democracy
dictatorship
What is the name Old Major gives his "Principles"?
Rights of the Four-Footed
Beastism
animalism
What have the pigs spent the last three months before the revolution doing?
Learning to use weapons.
Learning to read and write.
Learning how to walk on two legs.
Learning how to make weapons.
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
Animal Farm is an allegorical satire on:
The Russian Revolution
The American Revolution
World War I
The War of the Worlds
Animal Farm is also a parable in that it cautions us about
American Capitalism and British Imperialism.
the evils of Russian and Chinese Communism.
how stupidly the electorate vote in a democracy.
how revolutionary leaders betray the interests of the masses.
Animal Farm is also a fable in that it
is set on a farm in Hertfordshire, England.
takes place in the twentieth century, but is timeless.
has as characters animals who serve as human types.
was written by British essayist and journalist Eric Blair.
If you wanted to prove that Mr. Jones is a tyrannical and cruel leader, which piece of evidence would be the strongest support for this character trait?
“Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the popholes”
“Let us face it: [under Mr. Jones] 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 [we] are forced to work to the last atom of our strength…[then] we are slaughtered with hideous cruelty”
[Mr. Jones] is the only creature that consumes without producing.
“The rest [of the eggs and milk] have gone to market to bring in money for Jones and his men”
Old Major symbolizes…
The adherence to the law of dominance by man
The old and wise animals of the farm
The philosophical vision of the revolution
The dream that is impossible to accomplish
Old Major is like Karl Marx in that he
Leads a revolution
Expresses radical thoughts that could never really happen
Has a dream that everyone can live in peace and harmony
Has a dream of equality for classes that is later used to form a revolution
“Rings shall vanish from our noses/And the harness from our back/Bit and spur shall rust forever/Cruel whips no more shall crack” This stanza from “Beast of England” does all of the following EXCEPT …
Reminds the animal of their humiliation
Serves as symbols of slavery and oppression
Gives imagery of freedom from man
Foreshadows how difficult it will be to rebel against man
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
The theory of Animalism is like true Communism in that is
Communists behave more like animals than humans
There is no distinct class system, so everyone is equal and works to his or her capacity
There is no government and no leaders
Communists own private businesses just as each animal produces individual products
The name change of “Manor Farm” to “Animal Farm” most likely represents
Russia changing its name to Soviet Union
Russians revolting against Tsar Nicholas II
The Soviet Union becoming a dictatorship
Russia making allies with Germany
Which line from Old Major’s speech reveals to us the core message of The Seven Commandments?
“Man serves the interests of no creature except himself”
“All men are enemies. All animals are comrades”
“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”
Most of The Seven Commandments best represent:
The new religion and rules of God that the animals will follow
The belief that animals are stronger and better than humans
The rejection of human status symbols and vices
The new constitution that is protected against changes
Old Major’s dream eventually encourages the animals to…
Toil patiently
Revolt against the humans
Fight to enslave humans
Memorize “The Beasts of England”
If you wanted to best prove that George Orwell was actually a supporter of socialism and communism if it were practiced correctly, which evidence would you use to support your theory?
“How they toiled and sweated to get the hay in! But their efforts were rewarded, for the harvest was an even bigger success than they had hoped”
“The pigs did not actually work, but directed and supervised the others. With their superior knowledge, it was natural that they should assume leadership”
“The animals were happy as they had never conceived it possible to be. Every mouthful of food was…pleasure, not that it was truly their own food…With the worthless parasitical human beings gone, there was more for everyone to eat”
“Old Benjamin…seemed quite unchanged since the Rebellion”
Why do Napoleon and Snowball take the lead at making resolutions for the farm?
The other animals didn’t want the responsibility.
The other animals understood how to vote, but could never think of any resolutions of their own.
The other animals did make resolutions, but no one listened to them.
The other animals voted in Napoleon and Snowball as their leaders
"Comrades!" he cried. "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. I dislike them myself. Our sole object in taking these things is to preserve our health. Milk and apples (this has been proved by Science, comrades) contain substances absolutely necessary to the well-being of a pig. We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of this farm depend on us. Day and night we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples. Do you know what would happen if we pigs failed in our duty? Jones would come back! Yes, Jones would come back! Surely, comrades," cried Squealer almost pleadingly, skipping from side to side and whisking his tail, "surely there is no one among you who wants to see Jones come back?" Squealer is able to convince the animals that the pigs deserve the milk and animals by…
A combination of fabricated statistics and fear tactics
A combination of sweet-talking and trickery
A combination of fabricated statistics and guilt
A combination of sweet-talking and guilt
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 try to revolt against humans
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
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
Mollie’s character and eventual actions most likely represent
Superficial citizens who preferred life before the rebellion
Dedicated citizens who worked hard for their country
Superficial citizens who complained about the new government but still did their part
Dedicated citizens who eventually felt manipulated by their own government
“At the Meetings Snowball often won over the majority by his brilliant speeches, but Napoleon was better at canvassing support for himself in between times. He was especially successful with the sheep. Of late the sheep had taken to bleating ‘Four legs good, two legs bad’…and often interrupted…at crucial moments in Snowball’s speeches”
This segment plays on the general knowledge and connotations about real sheep in that they…
Can talk
Symbolize innocence
Are followers
Are intelligent
After Old Major’s death, Napoleon establishes himself as a leader partly through cultivating a reputation as
A vivacious pig who is liked by everyone
An effective bully who sees himself as a boss
A brilliant thinker who sways others with logical arguments
A dazzling speaker who can have the animals hang on his every word
As soon as Napoleon takes over, what is the first change that he makes on the farm?
He gives everyone equal voting rights on the resolutions he sets forth
He gives everyone equal rations of milk and apples
He takes away Sunday-morning Meetings and debates
He takes away retirement pensions
Napoleon makes his first change to the farm after taking over because…
He would be happy to let the animals make their own decisions, but sometimes they make the wrong decisions
He wants them to have more of an equal vote on the farm
He wants the animals to work until death
He wants everyone fed well so that they will do more work
Initially, what do the pigs use to persuade the other animals after Napoleon takes over?
Fear tactics with the dogs and warnings that Jones might come back
Promises of a better life
Gifts of extra milk and apples
Fear tactics with the dogs and warnings that Snowball might come back
The pigs sleeping in beds is a sign of their
Self-sacrifice
Growing corruption
Deserving rewards for intelligence
Increasing need for rest
Blaming the destruction of the windmill on Snowball is a way to
Show the animals the truth
Create a common enemy in which they can rally and unite against
Show the animals that they can’t fight against nature
Create a motive to rebuild the windmill so that they can better fight against Snowball in the future
Napoleon is like Stalin in that he…
Has all the power from the beginning of the revolution
Is overweight and unhealthy
Gains power through propaganda and the blind trust of the people
Gets his way because he is of royal lineage
Hiding the food shortage from the outside world best satirizes…
The manner in which a dictatorship can hide internal crises
The rage of lies that were told by Napoleon and Stalin
The inability of the animals (general human population) to rule themselves
The impact of the loss that Snowball and Trotsky had on the farm and Soviet Union
What is the real reason “Beast of England” is replaced?
The rebellion is finished, so the song isn’t needed any more
The rebellion will never happen, so they don’t want to get saddened by the song
The rebellion didn’t end up the way they had envisioned, Squealer and Napoleon don’t want the animals reminded of their original goal
The song is too depressing, so Squealer wants to replace it with a more up-beat tune
“If she could have spoken her thoughts, it would have been to say that this was not what they had aimed at when they had set themselves years ago…” Why can’t Clover speak her thoughts?
She can’t find the words to express her happiness adequately
She doesn’t have freedom of speech under Napoleon and is afraid of execution
She needs to do some research to see if they are indeed better off than in Jones’ day
She is stupid and can’t think of words to say
The pigs are able to break the Commandments without a general outcry from the rest of the animals in all of the following ways EXCEPT
Squealer’s propaganda
Ignorance and blind trust
Not having the ability to be educated enough to read
Not questioning
The passage that most reveals that Frederick represents Hitler is
“The animals distrusted Pilkington, but greatly preferred him to Frederick”
“The both feared and hated [Frederick]”
“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 bad check from Frederick most likely represents
The complicated tactics of forming and trusting allies during WWII
The complicated strategies Stalin used to trick Hitler
The complicated plans that England set into place during WWII
The complicated schemes that America set into place during WWII
The animals admire Boxer for his…
Hard work
Brains
Good looks
Outgoingness
In the article, “A New Cold War” from Upfront Magazine Patricia Smith reports: Some of the tensions stem from Russia's slide back toward authoritarianism--which seems deeply rooted in its history. For 350 years, the country was ruled by powerful czars. In 1917, the Russian Revolution ushered in seven decades of brutal Communist rule under the Soviet Union--America's Cold War foe (see Key Dates). The years that followed the Soviet collapse in 1991 were marked by chaos and economic upheaval. When Putin (a former agent in the KGB, the Soviet spy agency) took over as president in 1999, most Russians were relieved to have a strong leader. But once in charge, Putin began grabbing more power. In 2004, he eliminated elections for key governors and mayors; now those positions are filled by appointees loyal to him. He also tightened controls over the press. At the same time, however, Russia's economy boomed, driven by surging oil prices. Today, Russia has the world's sixth-largest economy and is the world's largest producer of oil. In 2008, Putin found a way around the term-limit law that prevented him from running again when his second term expired: He handpicked Medvedev as his successor, and after Medvedev won, he appointed Putin as his prime minister. Although Medvedev was technically the country's leader, Putin continued to wield the real power behind the scenes. Then last year, Medvedev stepped aside, and Putin won a third term as president.
If you wanted to prove that history may indeed be repeating itself, which satirical example would you use from Orwell?
“But the pigs seemed comfortable enough, an in fact were putting on weight if anything”
“But if there were hardships to be borne, they were partly offset by the fact that life nowadays had a greater dignity than it had before”
“The found it comforting to be reminded that, they were truly their own masters and that the word they did was for their own benefit”
“Animal Farm was proclaimed a Republic, and it became necessary to elect a President. There was only one candidate, Napoleon, who was elected unanimously”
Napoleon being the sole candidate for president illustrates the theme of…
The end of dictatorship
The beginning of a true republic
The illusion of democracy
The ideal form of government
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”
“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
At the pigs’ party, the humans compare the lower, less intelligent animals to…
The government
The lower classes
Their own animals
The upper classes
Why is cheating at cards the final act that makes humans and pigs indistinguishable?
It shows that the pigs are now masters at human forms of corruption
It signifies that pigs and people can’t get along
It shows that cheating is a universal act that everyone does
It signifies that no government can be trusted
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
The closing line of Animal Farm means that the animals have
At last reached an agreement with their former masters
Lost the ability to discern who is a friend and who is a foe by trading one tyrant for another
Exchanged ineffective tyrant for far more effective leaders
Realized the honesty in Napoleon and the dishonesty in the humans
In the article, “A New Cold War” from Upfront Magazine Patricia Smith reports:And it looks like Putin may be around for a long time to come. He says he may seek re-election when his current six-year term expires in 2018--meaning that he could lead Russia for a total of 25 years, longer than anyone since Joseph Stalin. With Putin in charge, Russia remains a force on the global stage--and a potent U.S. adversary--even if it's no longer a superpower. "It's always good to remember that Putin is a judo champion, and judo is not about brute force," says Gaddy, the Russia expert. "It's about feinting and using your opponent's weakness to your advantage. That's the way he operates." By using a judo analogy, the author points out that Putin is gains power by taking advantage of the opponent’s weaknesses.
How can this also be compared to Napoleon and Stalin’s technique?
Napoleon exploits the low IQ of the animals and their tendency to blindly follow the religious message of Moses by allowing him to return to the farm to give the animals hope
Napoleon exploits the low IQ of the animals and their inability to read by sneakily changing the rules of their country without the consent of the majority
Napoleon exploits the low IQ of the animals and their tendency to blindly follow without questioning by appointing Squealer as his “propaganda”
Napoleon exploits the low IQ of the animals and their inability to fight back by appointing dogs to keep the animals under control
In the article, “A New Cold War” from Upfront Magazine Patricia Smith reports: The years that followed the Soviet collapse in 1991 were marked by chaos and economic upheaval. When Putin (a former agent in the KGB, the Soviet spy agency) took over as president in 1999, most Russians were relieved to have a strong leader. But once in charge, Putin began grabbing more power. In 2004, he eliminated elections for key governors and mayors; now those positions are filled by appointees loyal to him. He also tightened controls over the press. At the same time, however, Russia's economy boomed, driven by surging oil prices. Today, Russia has the world's sixth-largest economy and is the world's largest producer of oil. In 2008, Putin found a way around the term-limit law that prevented him from running again when his second term expired: He handpicked Medvedev as his successor, and after Medvedev won, he appointed Putin as his prime minister. Although Medvedev was technically the country's leader, Putin continued to wield the real power behind the scenes. Then last year, Medvedev stepped aside, and Putin won a third term as president.
According to the article, how is Putin becoming more controlling and less democratic? Select ALL that apply
Eliminating elections for key governors and mayors
Tightening controls over the press
Boosting Russia’s economy through production of oil
Allowing Medvedev to make all of the big decisions
According to “A New Cold War?,” “[Putin] says he may seek re-election…in 2018 meaning that he could lead Russia for a total of 25 years, longer than anyone since Joseph Stalin” Why would the author choose to highlight this connection in her article?
Smith wants to show that Russia will never allow another tyrant to lead their country again
Smith wants to show that she is knowledgeable about Russia’s history
Smith wants to show that Putin and Stalin are both cruel dictators
Smith wants to show a parallel between Putin and Stalin so that the readers can infer where Russia may be heading
