Animal Farm Chapter 2 Quiz

Animal Farm Chapter 2 questions

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

1. What actually triggers the rebellion on Midsummer's Eve?
   Jones announces he is selling Boxer to the knacker · Jones goes drinking and the animals are left unfed · Jones orders the hens' eggs taken to market early · Jones drives the cows out of the store-shed at dawn
2. How does the novella first distinguish Napoleon from Snowball?
   Napoleon is older and was Old Major's chosen heir · Napoleon is the only pig who can read a spelling book · Napoleon says little but is known for getting his way · Napoleon is the better speaker and the more inventive
3. The pigs work Old Major's ideas up into a named doctrine. What does systematising it achieve for them?
   It persuades the neighbouring farms to join the rising · It lets every animal propose new rules each week · It gives the animals a written contract Jones must honour · It makes the pigs the authorities on what the rules mean
4. 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
5. The farm's seven rules go up on the end wall of the big barn. What does the text stress about how they are put there?
   In chalk, so that they could be corrected as needed · In large white letters, readable from a distance · In a notebook the pigs keep in the harness-room · On a board carried in to each Sunday meeting

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