Animal Farm test review sheet

Dictatorship, pigs, power

Often the problem with a ......., as shown by the ........, is that the dictator becomes more and more thirsty for ........

miserable, laborious, and short

One main point of Major's speech was that under Jones their lives are

vanity

One of Mollie's qualities is her

democracy and good education

One of the major theme regarding education in Animal Farm is that ........ and ........ to resist those who would forcefully rule.

lower, Boxer

Orwell believed that in society of class distinction the ..... class is always the loser. This is show in the story by the treatment of ..... when he becomes ill.

Snowball and Napoleon

Orwell implies that, had ........ taken over the farm instead of ........ the ending would have been no different. This is pessimistic view of life.

power.

Orwell makes a strong statement about ....... He states,"Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

Squealer

The animals mirror a human characteristic of being led astray by figures when ........ uses statistics to prove what he tells the animals.

capable leader, an ambush, and their strong spirit

The animals were victorious because of a

Jones' weakness, vice, and neglect

The rebellion took place spontaneously because of

where the windmill had been

The thing that spurred the animals' courage in the last battle was the sight of the spot

breaking up the stone

The windmill was soon begun. The most difficult part of the animals' task comes in

the cleverest group of animals

The work of teaching and organizing the others fell naturally upon the pigs, who were generally recognized as being

Snowball and Napoleon

There was a rivalry for command between

read and write

Immediately after the Rebellion, it was learned that the pigs taught themselves to

changed their farm to Manor Farm

In the last chapter the pigs

shows the supreme irony of the Rebellion

"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which." This statement

Snowball took charge of the defensive operations against Jones and his men

After studying an old book of Julius Caesar's campaigns,

Idealism, Major

....... is pictures in the character of ......

Snowball

....... was chased off the farm by nine fierce dogs

Benjamin

......... represents human being who is extremely cyncial about everything

live and Seven Commandments

A characteristic of man is to establish rules by which to ..... and the characteristic is paralleled by the .........

whoever was speaking

During discussions at their meeting, the animals usually agreed with

attempted to recapture the farm,

Early in October of the first year of Jones and all his men

Fredrick, the windmill

Led by ............ , Several men banded together to attack Animal Farm. Their prime target was

man

Major stated that only creature who consumes without producing is

beliefs that Napoleon was right

Man's tendency to blindly believe an authoritarian figure despite facts to the contrary is pictured in one of the animal's

brutality

Orwell's belief that Russian communism was no better than the oppressive rule of Czar is shown by Napoleon's ........ and the increased submission of animals

corrupted, pigs, power

Orwell's belief that revolution is ultimately doomed to failure is shown by the way Old Major's ideas became ........ by the ....... hunger for ......