Animal Farm Chapter 6 Quiz

Animal Farm Chapter 6 questions

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

1. Sunday afternoon work is called voluntary. What makes it compulsory in practice?
   Absentees are named at the next flag ceremony · Staying away costs an animal half its rations · The sheep are set to bleat at anyone resting · The dogs patrol the fields on Sunday afternoons
2. How do the animals get the stone they need for the windmill?
   They dig it from the field beyond the orchard · They take down the farm's old boundary wall · They topple boulders off the edge of the quarry · They buy dressed stone through a human agent
3. Why does Napoleon engage Mr Whymper?
   To value the farm in case it has to be sold · To teach the young pigs their letters and figures · To defend the farm in its disputes with Frederick · To buy and sell on the farm's behalf each week
4. Where do the pigs begin sleeping, and what happens to the rule that covers it?
   In the farmhouse beds, and the rule gains a clause · In the harness-room, and the rule is quietly dropped · In the farmhouse kitchen, and the rule is painted out · In the barn loft, and the rule is read out unchanged
5. 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

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