Animal Farm Challenge Quiz

Animal Farm Challenge questions

The answers and an explanation for each question appear as you play, and on the answer-key page of the printout.

1. Old Major's case against human beings rests on one economic claim. What is it?
   Humans keep the farm's profits inside a single family · Humans breed animals faster than the land can feed them · Humans sell animals to one another and hoard the money · Humans take what animals make and produce nothing
2. The missing milk on the first evening sets a pattern for how the pigs handle awkward questions. What is that pattern?
   An awkward question is deflected by urgent work · A decision is put to a vote and then overruled · A shortage is blamed on the animals who complain · A rule is rewritten overnight on the barn wall
3. What does the order of business at the Sunday ceremony show about how the farm is governed?
   Decisions are announced monthly and in writing · The animals decide the week's work by open vote · Ceremony comes first and debate comes afterwards · Each animal takes a turn at leading the meeting
4. Mollie's conduct during the battle sits oddly beside the medals handed out afterwards. What does the contrast establish?
   The dogs are the only animals the leaders really trust · The medals are given out by lot rather than by merit · The farm rewards courage and quietly notes who hid · The pigs take all the credit for the animals' fighting
5. What does Boxer settle on as his answer to the ending of the Sunday debates?
   Trusting that the leader's decisions must be right · Reminding the others of the rules on the barn wall · Asking Squealer to put the reasons down in writing · Demanding that the four young pigs be heard again
6. The half-built windmill comes down in a November gale. What does Napoleon do with the disaster?
   He admits the walls had been built far too thin · He blames Snowball and puts a price on his head · He halts the rebuilding until the following spring · He accuses Mr Whymper of supplying bad stone
7. What makes the confessions extracted in the yard useful to Napoleon, whatever their truth?
   They give the animals a reason to work on Sundays · They make the absent Snowball look active everywhere · They prove that the windmill was built too hastily · They let Squealer revise the farm's output figures
8. Squealer is found at night at the foot of a broken ladder by the barn wall, a paintbrush beside him. What does the episode let the reader see?
   The pigs are copying the rules into a ledger · The pigs are repainting the farm's flag in secret · Squealer is adding Minimus's poem to the wall · The rules are being quietly rewritten by the pigs
9. Squealer's account of Boxer's death does more than explain away the van. What is its real work?
   It turns Boxer's end into a lesson in loyalty · It proves the farm's vet had done all he could · It silences the hens who asked about the van · It shifts the blame for the death onto Benjamin
10. The barn wall no longer carries the farm's seven rules. What stands there instead?
    One sentence that grants equality and then ranks it · A notice forbidding the animals to read the wall · The verses Minimus composed in Napoleon's honour · A portrait of Napoleon with his list of new titles
11. How are the rules on the barn wall typically altered?
    A new rule is added at the bottom of the list · A rule is removed and the list renumbered · A qualifying phrase is added to an existing rule · The whole list is repainted in a smaller hand
12. Squealer takes the sheep away for a week shortly before the pigs appear on two legs. Why does that order of events matter?
    Squealer needs them away to repaint the barn wall · The sheep are taught to read the rules themselves · The new chant is ready before the change is seen · The sheep are being punished for refusing to chant
13. What does the closing scene at the farmhouse window establish about the Rebellion?
    Clover and Benjamin are the last to understand it · The neighbouring farmers mean to buy the farm back · The animals are preparing a second rising at once · Its rulers cannot be told apart from the old ones

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Original questions written for Pagine. This book is in copyright, so questions paraphrase rather than quote it.