Animal Farm Chapter 4 Quiz

Animal Farm Chapter 4 questions

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

1. How do Mr Pilkington and Mr Frederick respond to the rising next door?
   They offer to buy the farm from Jones outright · They send their own men to work the farm's fields · They put a price on Snowball's and Napoleon's heads · They spread lurid rumours about conditions there
2. How does Snowball prepare for the attack on the farm?
   He studies an old book of Caesar's campaigns · He sends pigeons to ask other farms for help · He has the animals drill with Jones's shotgun · He builds a barricade across the cart-track
3. Why is Boxer distressed once the fighting is over?
   He let one of Jones's men escape down the lane · He believes he has killed the stable-lad he struck · He could not reach the yard before the ambush · He has lost the straw hat he wore in the field
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 do the animals decide to do with the gun Jones leaves behind in the mud?
   Keep it in the harness-room in case of attack · Throw it down the well with the whips and chains · Hand it to Mr Pilkington as a sign of good faith · Set it by the flagstaff and fire it twice a year

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