Animal Farm Chapter 8 Quiz

Animal Farm Chapter 8 questions

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

1. Some animals half-remember a rule against killing. What do they find when it is read out to them?
   The rule has been painted over and left blank · The rule has been moved to the end of the list · The rule now covers only animals from other farms · Two words have been added, allowing killing with cause
2. How does Frederick pay for the farm's pile of timber?
   With banknotes that turn out to be forgeries · With a cheque Mr Whymper refuses to accept · With machinery for the unfinished windmill · With cattle driven over from Pinchfield Farm
3. What happens to the completed windmill during Frederick's attack?
   The animals pull it down to block the gate · The men blow it up with blasting powder · It is damaged but left standing afterwards · The men set fire to its timbers and sails
4. How does Squealer present the Battle of the Windmill to the animals afterwards?
   As a draw proving the need for firearms training · As a defeat the farm must avenge in the spring · As a victory, marked by a new honour for Napoleon · As a warning that Pilkington cannot be trusted
5. Squealer is found at night at the foot of a broken ladder by the barn wall, a paintbrush beside him. What does the episode let the reader see?
   The pigs are copying the rules into a ledger · The pigs are repainting the farm's flag in secret · Squealer is adding Minimus's poem to the wall · The rules are being quietly rewritten by the pigs

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