Animal Farm Chapter 3 Quiz

Animal Farm Chapter 3 questions

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

1. How does Boxer answer the demands of the farm's first harvest?
   He takes charge of organising the work parties · He learns to read so he can follow instructions · He adopts a private motto about working harder · He asks Snowball to give him lighter duties
2. What happens to the litter of puppies born in this chapter?
   They are set to guard the store-shed at night · They stay with Jessie and Bluebell in the stables · Snowball enrols them in his class with the sheep · Napoleon takes them away to educate them privately
3. Why do the sheep end up with a short chant rather than the full set of rules?
   They cannot remember them, so Snowball condenses them · They refuse to attend any of the farm's reading classes · Napoleon orders a version the sheep can shout in unison · Benjamin suggests it once the rules prove too long
4. Squealer explains why the pigs alone get the milk and the windfall apples. What does his argument depend on?
   A rule about food that Old Major had laid down · Pigs' brain work, plus the threat of Jones coming back · A vote taken at the Sunday meeting in the big barn · The pigs' extra hours of labour during the harvest
5. 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

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