Animal Farm Final Test: Whole-Novella Quiz

Animal Farm Whole Novella questions

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

1. What does Old Major identify as the single cause of the animals' misery?
   The animals' failure to organise themselves · The poor soil of the farm and its wet climate · Human beings, who live off what animals produce · The neighbouring farmers' refusal to trade fairly
2. 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
3. Which comparison best captures the difference between Snowball and Napoleon?
   Snowball argues in public; Napoleon works behind it · Snowball is older; Napoleon is the better educated · Snowball leads the fighting; Napoleon leads the work · Snowball distrusts humans; Napoleon wants to trade
4. 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
5. 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
6. Why is the exiled Snowball more useful to Napoleon than the Snowball who stayed?
   His name still holds the older animals' loyalty · His plans can be carried out under another name · He keeps the other farms from attacking at all · Blame can be pinned on him without contradiction
7. What finally happens to Boxer?
   He is sold to the knacker once he cannot work · He retires to the paddock beyond the orchard · He is killed by the dogs for defying Napoleon · He dies of his wounds the night after a battle
8. 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
9. Squealer takes the sheep away for a week shortly before the pigs appear on two legs. Why does that order of events matter?
   Squealer needs them away to repaint the barn wall · The sheep are taught to read the rules themselves · The new chant is ready before the change is seen · The sheep are being punished for refusing to chant
10. 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.