Animal Farm Makeup

1. One of the reasons that Animal Farm qualifies as a fable is because

A) The animals are main characters and take on human characteristics
B) The tone of the story is sarcastic, and it clearly has a lesson
C) The story connects to an actual historical event
D) The animals speak to one another using quotes that people actually used in real life.

2. At the beginning of the novel, a meeting is held where Old Major proposes that the animals take over the farm. Shortly after this ______.

A) He encourages other farm animals to do the same.
B) He hires other animals to help in with the project.
C) He dies and leaves the animals to carry on his dream.
D) He successfully overthrows Farmer Jones.

3. The ORIGINAL set of rules established for the animals did NOT include which of the following:

A) No animal shall kill any other animal.
B) Whatever goes on four legs, or has wings, is a friend.
C) Whatever goes upon two legs in an enemy.
D) All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.
E) No animal shall wear clothes.

4. The first set of guidelines established for the farm were called

A) The six guidelines
B) The five rules
C) The ten commandments
D) The six ammendments
E) The seven commandments

5. At the end of the novel, the pigs were seen walking on two legs while

A) Working on the windmill with the other animals
B) Surveying the farmland to measure progress
C) Playing cards with neighboring farmers
D) Out in town purchasing goods for the farm

6. While Mollie was distracted with the small luxuries of life, another character was so obsessed with hard work that he nearly worked to death. This character was

A) Boxer
B) Snowball
C) Napolean
D) Moses
E) Old Major

7. When the animals came to needing an election, whose slogan was "Vote for ____ and the three day work week"?

A) Mollie
B) Moses
C) Napolean
D) Squealer
E) Snowball

8. How does the Old Major mirror Karl Marx?

A) He comes up with the ideas, but doesn't work to follow through on them.
B) He creates the idea for his followers, but doesn't live to see it happen.
C) He was from Russia, and sought to teach others the secrets of his country.
D) He found his ideas in a book, and communicated those to his followers.

9. Who represents Nicholas II, the Tzar of Russia until 1917?

A) Snowball
B) Farmer Jones
C) Napoleon
D) Squealer
E) Mr. Pinkington

10. Who best represents Leo Trotsky, a Russian revolutionary originally in power but expelled in 1925 by a rival leader?

A) Snowball
B) Boxer
C) Napoleon
D) Mollie
E) Old Major

11. "Comrade Napoleon", a song introduced in the second half of the book, replaced what previous symbol?

A) "Beasts of England", their original anthem
B) The windmill, which was destroyed
C) Their set of rules, which were written on the barn
D) The flag, symbolic with its colors and pictures

12. Which of the following words does NOT describe the animals as a group?

A) Well informed
B) Gullible
C) Hard-working
D) Illiterate

13. Which character best represents the working class of Russia?

A) Mollie
B) Moses
C) Boxer
D) Squealer
E) Napoleon

14. Which of the characters said the following, in response to Boxer's dismay that the intruding farmers had destroyed the windmill: "We will build another windmill. We will build six windmills if we feel like it. You do not appreciate, comrade, the mighty thing that we have done."

A) Snowball
B) Napoleon
C) Moses
D) Mr. Pinkelton
E) Squealer

15. With Napoleon as leader, animals who worked against his decrees could expect to

A) Be kicked off his staff
B) Be expelled from the farm
C) Be traded to another farmer
D) Be ignored by all other animals
E) Be killed

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