1. Insert an image (on your blog post) from the internet that you think symbolizes the story of Animal Farm.
2. Insert an image (on your blog post) that you think represents the "power struggle" similar to the one shown in Animal Farm.
3. According to Old Major, animals live in misery because
(a) that is the order of Nature (b) Man steals the produce of animals' labor
(c) the animals are incompetent (d) the soil of England is infertile
4. The character of Napoleon is modeled upon that of
(a) Karl Marx (b) Trotsky (c) Lenin (d) Stalin
5. Benjamin meets each new development/change on Animal Farm with the statement,
(a) "I will try to work harder." (b) "Life will go on as it has always gone on-this is badly."
(c) "Napoleon is always right." (d) "All animals are equal"
6. The character of Snowball is modeled upon that of
(a) Stalin (b) Trotsky
(c) Lenin (d) Marx
7. Squealer tells the animals that bravery is not enough. What is more important?
(a) Obedience and honesty (b) Hard work and loyalty
(c) Obedience and loyalty (d) Honesty and hard work
8. The animals successfully fight off Jones and the neighboring men after they try to reclaim the farm, in the
(a) Battle of Cowshed (b) Rebellion
(c) Battle of Barnyard (d) Battle of the Windmill
9. Napoleon's guard dogs represent
(a) the loyal communist workers (b) KGB or the Russian military
(c) Russia's loyal animals (d) the wealthy
10. When the animals hear Squealer's explanation of Boxer's removal from Animal Farm, they
(a) do not believe it (b) are enormously relieved
(c) decided to rename the windmill for Boxer (d) protest Napoleon's cruelty
11. How is Animal Farm an allegorical story? What is it really about? Explain
It is about what the Russian revolution led up to and then into the events to the Soviet union.
It is about how the soviet union was thought to be brutal ( just like the humans to animal farm) and and how the Russians and Soviet Union dealt with it and this situation. Different characters
of the story represented different real life people in the early 1900's in the Russian revolution.
12. How do the pigs control the animals? Give at least two specific examples.
The pigs control the animals by making them think that the commandments have always been like that by adding words at the end, for example when the pigs started drinking alcohol the animals saw the commandment that it said it prohibited this but the pigs made them think that it was only to "excess" . The pigs control the animals by spreading statistic lies about them for example when their food ratios they told them that they were still better than with Mr. Jones and kept on repeating it.
