Animal Farm Quizzes

Animal Farm Quiz 1

1 In Animal Farm, Orwell criticizes primarily which world leader?
Leon Trotsky

Adolf Hitler

Joseph Stalin

Vladimir Lenin
2 Orwell completed Animal Farm during what international conflict?
World War II

The Cold War

The Russo-Japanese War

The Great War
3 Animal Farm is best described as a cautionary tale against
communism

National socialism

Marxism

totalitarianism
4 Animal Farm fits all of the following genres except
fable

farce

allegory

satire
5 In what armed conflict did Orwell participate voluntarily?
the Spanish Civil War

the French Congo Uprising

the Red Terror

the February Revolution
6 Orwell played all of the following roles during World War II except
propagandist

secret police agent

war correspondent

member of the Home Guard
7 Which of the following is true of Orwell?
he embraced luxury

he was a poor student

he died before the age of 50

he never married
8 Before Animal Farm, Orwell was known primarily as a(n)
member of the bourgeoisie

essayist

soldier

teacher
9 Orwell's other extremely successul novel is called
The Master and Margarita

Harrison Bergeron

Nineteen Eighty-Four

Brave New World
10 In what year did the Russian Revolution occur?
1905

1939

1917

1924
11 The initial Soviet campaign to quash internal dissidence was called
the Decembrists' Revolt

the Red Terror

the Five Year Plan

the Cold War
12 What event allowed Stalin to assume Soviet leadership?
The February Revolution

Lenin's death

Hitler's ascension

The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
13 What character in Animal Farm represents Karl Marx?
Snowball

Old Major

Napoleon

Benjamin
14 What character in Animal Farm represents Trotsky?
Squealer

Boxer

Napoleon

Snowball
15 What character in Animal Farm represents Stalin?
Squealer

Frederick

Napoleon

the Horse-Slaughterer
16 The dogs in Animal Farm can be said to represent
peasants

foreign diplomats

secret police

educated elites
17 What character adopts the personal maxim, "I will work harder"?
Snowball

Benjamin

Boxer

Clover
18 Which class of creatures stages its own small-scale rebellion against the pigs?
the wild rats and rabbits

the cows

the hens

the sheep
19 Squealer's job is to distribute what among the animals?
reading materials

rations

propaganda

weekly assignments
20 Which of the following is not a slogan in Animal Farm?
"Four legs good, two legs better"

"War is peace / Freedom is Slavery / Ignorance is Strength"

"Long live Comrade Napoleon"

"All animals are equal / But some animals are more equal than others"
21 Which of the following is/are most clearly an example of propaganda?
the original Seven Commandments

the reductions of rations

the pigs' decision to wear clothing

Squealer's optimistic statistics
22 The threat of what scares the animals into submission?
a trip to the glue factory

Old Major's exhumation

Jones's return

Pilkington's atrocities
23 Which of the following is NOT one of the Seven Commandments?
"No animal shall dishonor his father"

"No animal shall kill any other animal"

"No animal shall sleep in a bed"

"No animal shall drink alcohol"
24 The pigs break all of the Seven Commandments EXCEPT
"Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy"

"No animal shall drink alcohol"

they break all of them

"All animals are equal"
25 When the animals tour the farmhouse, they discover that the Joneses lived in
sin

denial

luxury

squalor

Animal Farm contains mainly extremely effective scenes. Some are humorous or witty, others bitterly ironic or pessimistic . Which scene did you find most effective and memorable? why?

A seen that sticks with me is a terrifying one: I suppose that is why it has stayed with me for so long. The scene is when Boxer the horse. One afternoon, a van comes to take Boxer away. It has “lettering on its side and a sly-looking man in...

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What is the relationship between Snowball and Napoleon?

Both Snowball and Napoleon are leaders. They see leadership in each other. Napoleon sees Snowball's loyalty to the animals as a threat to his dictatorship. While Snowball works for the good of the farm, Napoleon works only for his own interests.

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Essay question is : Power cannot be used for good.it can only be used for keeping power. Agree or disagree in relation to animal farm

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