Animal Farm Quizzes

Animal Farm Quiz 1

By Tania Asnes · Edited by Adam Kissel · Last reviewed May 31, 2008

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

Adolf Hitler

Joseph Stalin

Vladimir Lenin

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

The Great War

World War II

The Russo-Japanese War

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

National socialism

Marxism

communism

totalitarianism
4 Animal Farm fits all of the following genres except

allegory

fable

farce

satire
5 In what armed conflict did Orwell participate voluntarily?

the February Revolution

the French Congo Uprising

the Spanish Civil War

the Red Terror
6 Orwell played all of the following roles during World War II except

propagandist

member of the Home Guard

war correspondent

secret police agent
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)

essayist

member of the bourgeoisie

soldier

teacher
9 Orwell's other extremely successul novel is called

The Master and Margarita

Harrison Bergeron

Brave New World

Nineteen Eighty-Four
10 In what year did the Russian Revolution occur?

1917

1905

1924

1939
11 The initial Soviet campaign to quash internal dissidence was called

the Red Terror

the Cold War

the Five Year Plan

the Decembrists' Revolt
12 What event allowed Stalin to assume Soviet leadership?

The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

Hitler's ascension

Lenin's death

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

Napoleon

Old Major

Benjamin

Snowball
14 What character in Animal Farm represents Trotsky?

Napoleon

Squealer

Snowball

Boxer
15 What character in Animal Farm represents Stalin?

Frederick

the Horse-Slaughterer

Napoleon

Squealer
16 The dogs in Animal Farm can be said to represent

peasants

secret police

educated elites

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 cows

the sheep

the hens

the wild rats and rabbits
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?

"Long live Comrade Napoleon"

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

"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 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?

Pilkington's atrocities

a trip to the glue factory

Old Major's exhumation

Jones's return
23 Which of the following is NOT one of the Seven Commandments?

"No animal shall kill any other animal"

"No animal shall dishonor his father"

"No animal shall drink alcohol"

"No animal shall sleep in a bed"
24 The pigs break all of the Seven Commandments EXCEPT

"All animals are equal"

"Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy"

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

denial

squalor

sin

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