Animal Farm Language & structure Quiz

Animal Farm Language & structure 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 Old Major's address end, and what does he leave the animals with?
   A song from his dream of a farm without humans · A plan for seizing the farm on Midsummer's Eve · A written set of rules for the animals to obey · A warning that he will choose a successor soon
2. The farm's seven rules go up on the end wall of the big barn. What does the text stress about how they are put there?
   In chalk, so that they could be corrected as needed · In large white letters, readable from a distance · In a notebook the pigs keep in the harness-room · On a board carried in to each Sunday meeting
3. 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
4. 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
5. How is the dispute over the windmill finally settled?
   The animals vote narrowly in Napoleon's favour · Snowball withdraws the plan and leaves quietly · Napoleon's dogs drive Snowball off the farm · Squealer finds a compromise both pigs accept
6. 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
7. What becomes of the Rebellion's anthem, and how is the decision justified?
   It is kept only for the two annual gun salutes · Minimus adds new verses in praise of the pigs · It is banned, the Rebellion being declared complete · The sheep sing it in place of the other animals
8. 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
9. 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
10. 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
11. What becomes of Snowball's promises about what the windmill would do?
    It stands unfinished at the top of the knoll · It is pulled down and the stone used for a barn · It mills corn for profit instead of making power · It lights the farmhouse and nothing else at all
12. The barn wall no longer carries the farm's seven rules. What stands there instead?
    One sentence that grants equality and then ranks it · A notice forbidding the animals to read the wall · The verses Minimus composed in Napoleon's honour · A portrait of Napoleon with his list of new titles
13. What is the animals' first act once Jones and his men have been driven out?
    They move into the farmhouse to live there · They elect Snowball and Napoleon as leaders · They send pigeons to the neighbouring farms · They destroy the harness and whips they find
14. How are the rules on the barn wall typically altered?
    A new rule is added at the bottom of the list · A rule is removed and the list renumbered · A qualifying phrase is added to an existing rule · The whole list is repainted in a smaller hand

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