Animal Farm Chapter 1 Quiz

Animal Farm Chapter 1 questions

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

1. What careless act by Mr Jones lets the animals gather undisturbed on the night of the meeting?
   He goes to bed drunk and leaves the henhouse unsecured · He falls asleep in the barn after drinking all day · He forgets to chain the dogs in the farmhouse kitchen · He leaves the main farm gate standing open overnight
2. How is Old Major's standing on the farm established before he even speaks?
   He is the only animal who can read and write fluently · He is an aged prize boar the others hold in high regard · He is the farm's oldest animal and can barely walk · He is the strongest working animal on the whole farm
3. Old Major puts the question of whether rats count as comrades to a vote. What does that moment reveal about his vision?
   Only the farm's working animals are given a real vote · The animals have already split into rival parties · Who counts as a comrade is settled by a show of hands · The pigs intend to control every decision from the start
4. 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
5. How does Old Major's address end, and what does he leave the animals with?
   A song from his dream of a farm without humans · A plan for seizing the farm on Midsummer's Eve · A written set of rules for the animals to obey · A warning that he will choose a successor soon

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