Animal Farm Quizzes

Animal Farm Quiz 1

1 In Animal Farm, Orwell criticizes primarily which world leader?
Joseph Stalin

Adolf Hitler

Vladimir Lenin

Leon Trotsky
2 Orwell completed Animal Farm during what international conflict?
The Great War

The Cold War

World War II

The Russo-Japanese War
3 Animal Farm is best described as a cautionary tale against
National socialism

Marxism

totalitarianism

communism
4 Animal Farm fits all of the following genres except
allegory

satire

farce

fable
5 In what armed conflict did Orwell participate voluntarily?
the February Revolution

the French Congo Uprising

the Red Terror

the Spanish Civil War
6 Orwell played all of the following roles during World War II except
member of the Home Guard

propagandist

war correspondent

secret police agent
7 Which of the following is true of Orwell?
he never married

he embraced luxury

he was a poor student

he died before the age of 50
8 Before Animal Farm, Orwell was known primarily as a(n)
essayist

teacher

member of the bourgeoisie

soldier
9 Orwell's other extremely successul novel is called
Nineteen Eighty-Four

Harrison Bergeron

Brave New World

The Master and Margarita
10 In what year did the Russian Revolution occur?
1924

1939

1905

1917
11 The initial Soviet campaign to quash internal dissidence was called
the Decembrists' Revolt

the Cold War

the Red Terror

the Five Year Plan
12 What event allowed Stalin to assume Soviet leadership?
Lenin's death

Hitler's ascension

The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

The February Revolution
13 What character in Animal Farm represents Karl Marx?
Benjamin

Napoleon

Old Major

Snowball
14 What character in Animal Farm represents Trotsky?
Snowball

Squealer

Boxer

Napoleon
15 What character in Animal Farm represents Stalin?
Frederick

Squealer

the Horse-Slaughterer

Napoleon
16 The dogs in Animal Farm can be said to represent
peasants

educated elites

secret police

foreign diplomats
17 What character adopts the personal maxim, "I will work harder"?
Boxer

Benjamin

Clover

Snowball
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

propaganda

rations

weekly assignments
20 Which of the following is not a slogan in Animal Farm?
"All animals are equal / But some animals are more equal than others"

"Long live Comrade Napoleon"

"Four legs good, two legs better"

"War is peace / Freedom is Slavery / Ignorance is Strength"
21 Which of the following is/are most clearly an example of propaganda?
the pigs' decision to wear clothing

Squealer's optimistic statistics

the original Seven Commandments

the reductions of rations
22 The threat of what scares the animals into submission?
Jones's return

Pilkington's atrocities

a trip to the glue factory

Old Major's exhumation
23 Which of the following is NOT one of the Seven Commandments?
"No animal shall kill any other animal"

"No animal shall sleep in a bed"

"No animal shall drink alcohol"

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

"All animals are equal"

they break all of them

"No animal shall drink alcohol"
25 When the animals tour the farmhouse, they discover that the Joneses lived in
luxury

sin

squalor

denial

The pigs and humans begin to play poker, and a fight erupts when Napoleon and Pilkington both put down the Ace of Spades at the same time. As the animals witness the pigs and humans quarreling over their poker game, they cannot distinguish between...

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Answered by jill d #170087 on 7/17/2015 8:05 PM

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The skin I’m in

Maleeka is teased because her skin is too dark. Miss Saunder's gets made fun of because she has a rare skin disease. Maleeka is ashamed of her skin, and Miss Saunders is proud of her own.

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Answered by jill d #170087 on 1/13/2019 10:02 PM

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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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Answered by Aslan on 2/15/2015 4:54 AM

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Animal Farm

by George Orwell

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