Animal Farm Chapter 9 Quiz

Animal Farm Chapter 9 questions

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

1. What is Boxer looking forward to as he nears retiring age?
   Learning the rest of the alphabet in the pasture · A place in the farmhouse beside the pigs · Taking charge of the farm's younger horses · Leading the Sunday procession past the skull
2. Who returns to the farm after years away, and what does he talk about?
   Jones, with a warrant from the magistrates · Moses, with his tales of a paradise in the sky · Mollie, with stories of her life in Willingdon · Snowball, with a new plan for the windmill
3. Why do the pigs tolerate Moses now, when they once contradicted him?
   He is the only animal who remembers Old Major · He carries messages to and from the other farms · His promised afterlife makes hard work bearable · He has agreed to teach the young pigs to read
4. How is Boxer taken off the farm after he collapses?
   In a wagon lent to the farm by Mr Pilkington · In the farm cart, driven by Benjamin and Clover · On foot, led down the lane by two of the dogs · In a closed van said to have been sent by a vet
5. Squealer's account of Boxer's death does more than explain away the van. What is its real work?
   It turns Boxer's end into a lesson in loyalty · It proves the farm's vet had done all he could · It silences the hens who asked about the van · It shifts the blame for the death onto Benjamin

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