Animal Farm Quizzes

Animal Farm Quiz 1

1 In Animal Farm, Orwell criticizes primarily which world leader?
Vladimir Lenin

Joseph Stalin

Leon Trotsky

Adolf Hitler
2 Orwell completed Animal Farm during what international conflict?
World War II

The Russo-Japanese War

The Great War

The Cold 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 Red Terror

the Spanish Civil War

the French Congo Uprising
6 Orwell played all of the following roles during World War II except
member of the Home Guard

propagandist

secret police agent

war correspondent
7 Which of the following is true of Orwell?
he was a poor student

he embraced luxury

he died before the age of 50

he never married
8 Before Animal Farm, Orwell was known primarily as a(n)
teacher

essayist

soldier

member of the bourgeoisie
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

1924

1917
11 The initial Soviet campaign to quash internal dissidence was called
the Five Year Plan

the Red Terror

the Decembrists' Revolt

the Cold War
12 What event allowed Stalin to assume Soviet leadership?
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

Lenin's death

Hitler's ascension

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

Old Major

Benjamin

Napoleon
14 What character in Animal Farm represents Trotsky?
Snowball

Napoleon

Squealer

Boxer
15 What character in Animal Farm represents Stalin?
Squealer

Napoleon

the Horse-Slaughterer

Frederick
16 The dogs in Animal Farm can be said to represent
foreign diplomats

secret police

peasants

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

Snowball

Clover

Boxer
18 Which class of creatures stages its own small-scale rebellion against the pigs?
the cows

the hens

the wild rats and rabbits

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

reading materials

rations

weekly assignments
20 Which of the following is not a slogan in Animal Farm?
"War is peace / Freedom is Slavery / Ignorance is Strength"

"Four legs good, two legs better"

"All animals are equal / But some animals are more equal than others"

"Long live Comrade Napoleon"
21 Which of the following is/are most clearly an example of propaganda?
the original Seven Commandments

Squealer's optimistic statistics

the reductions of rations

the pigs' decision to wear clothing
22 The threat of what scares the animals into submission?
Old Major's exhumation

Jones's return

a trip to the glue factory

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

"No animal shall drink alcohol"

"No animal shall kill any other animal"

"No animal shall sleep in a bed"
24 The pigs break all of the Seven Commandments EXCEPT
"Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy"

"All animals are equal"

"No animal shall drink alcohol"

they break all of them
25 When the animals tour the farmhouse, they discover that the Joneses lived in
squalor

luxury

denial

sin

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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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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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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by George Orwell

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