Animal Farm Themes Quiz

Animal Farm Themes questions

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1. Old Major's case against human beings rests on one economic claim. What is it?
   Humans keep the farm's profits inside a single family · Humans breed animals faster than the land can feed them · Humans sell animals to one another and hoard the money · Humans take what animals make and produce nothing
2. The missing milk on the first evening sets a pattern for how the pigs handle awkward questions. What is that pattern?
   An awkward question is deflected by urgent work · A decision is put to a vote and then overruled · A shortage is blamed on the animals who complain · A rule is rewritten overnight on the barn wall
3. What does the order of business at the Sunday ceremony show about how the farm is governed?
   Decisions are announced monthly and in writing · The animals decide the week's work by open vote · Ceremony comes first and debate comes afterwards · Each animal takes a turn at leading the meeting
4. 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
5. What does Boxer settle on as his answer to the ending of the Sunday debates?
   Trusting that the leader's decisions must be right · Reminding the others of the rules on the barn wall · Asking Squealer to put the reasons down in writing · Demanding that the four young pigs be heard again
6. 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
7. What makes the confessions extracted in the yard useful to Napoleon, whatever their truth?
   They give the animals a reason to work on Sundays · They make the absent Snowball look active everywhere · They prove that the windmill was built too hastily · They let Squealer revise the farm's output figures
8. 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
9. At the banquet Napoleon announces several changes. Which is the plainest surrender of the Rebellion?
   The gun salutes are cut to one a year instead · The farm takes back the name Jones had used · The pigs may wear green ribbons on Sundays · Mr Whymper is to call twice a week, not once
10. Across the novella the windmill serves one consistent purpose for Napoleon. What is it?
    A source of the power Snowball had promised · A task that justifies hunger and longer hours · A way of keeping Boxer from the farm meetings · A defence against attack from the other farms
11. What part does Moses the raven play in the farm's politics?
    He warns the animals that Jones means to return · He offers a reward after death instead of before · He keeps the memory of Old Major's speech alive · He carries the pigs' orders to the other farms
12. What does the closing scene at the farmhouse window establish about the Rebellion?
    Clover and Benjamin are the last to understand it · The neighbouring farmers mean to buy the farm back · The animals are preparing a second rising at once · Its rulers cannot be told apart from the old ones

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