Animal Farm Annotations For Quiz Ch. 1-3

What three things happened on sundays

1. No work 2. Breakfast was a hour later than usual 3. Weekly ceremony, were they put up a green flag with a hoof and horn representing the republic of the animals, pigs give a speech, sing beasts of England

Give three examples of the pigs clever uses of language and phrases that helped them manipulate the animals into gaining what they pigs wanted

1. We pigs are brain workers 2. We are watching over your welfare 3. Jones would come back if pigs failed

Seven Commandments of Animalism

1. whatever goes on two legs is an enemy 2. whatever goes on four legs, or has wings, is a friend. 3. no animal shall wear clothes. 4. no animal shall sleep in a bed. 5. no animal shall drink alcohol. 6. no animal shall kill any other animal. 7. all animals are equal.

How literate were the animals?Why would literacy be an issue?

All of the animals were literate in some degree, some of them couldn't get past the letter D or want to know letters to name and couldn't read stuff like rules or documents

List 2 ways the pigs are better off after the rebellion and 2 ways they are worse off

Better 1. They get milk and apples / no slaughter 2. They would be in good health Worse 1. They tire from hard work 2. No one does work for them, controlled by pigs

Who is the most admired animal and his slogan?

Boxer, "I will work harder"

Human Charateristics for boxer

Enormous beast, nearly 18 hands high, strong, stupid appearance, animal that most admired, hard working

Human characteristics of mollie

Foolish, pretty white mare, drew Mr. Jones trap, selfish, all about herself, all about herself

Describe the new commandments did or did not reflect the ideals that old major talked about in his speech?

He did talk about all of them. They reflected that they should really be like there own kind, and not like humans.

Moses human characteristics

He is a spy, gossip, "clever talk"

Why is major so respected

He is the Lord of the Animals, wise, good looking, leader, smart

Human Characteristics of Napoleon

Large, fierce looking, boar, only Brookshire boar, own way, not a talker, maniplautelive, insecure

What noble ideas are set forth in Old Major's dream?

Man has vanished, beasts of England song, animal equality, rebellion

What happened to the missing milk and apples and what was squealers explanation?

Milk and apples should be for the pigs alone and that he doesn't want Jones to come back

Who took Jessie's and bluebells pups? What did he say was the purpose?

Napoleon, make himself responsible for there education and educate them

How did the pigs "contribute" the farming and harvest

Pushing and pulling - boxer / harness themselves to the cutter of the horse rake

At the meetings, who never seemed to agree? Why do you think so?

Snowball and Napoleon, they were the pigs and they didn't agree on anything.

Who formulated the seven commandments? We're they decided upon in a democratic fashion? Why or why not?

Snowball and Napoleon, yes because they studied and picked the rules without letting anyone taking votes.

Who declared the seven commandments could be considered to be one? What was that one maxim (commandment)

Snowball, "four legs good, two legs bad"

What is squealers threat that he uses for what could happen if the pigs and animals say they didn't need to?

Surely I hope that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and self pleasure or mr. Jones would come back.

What conclusion can be drawn between the learning of the song "Beasts of England" and the acceptance of the pigs as the leader of all the other animals? How does this serve as foreshadowing for the rest of the novel?

That the pigs will be superior, and everyone will do what they say. The pigs will be like kings and run a democracy type government. One of them even might die.

Human Characteristics of Benjamin

The donkey, the oldest, seldom talked, devoted to boxer, doesn't care, careless attitude, nothing matters to him

Old major human characteristics

The oldest and most respected pig, wise, space

How does this episode FORESHADOW future events

The other animals might get jealous

Compare the animal farm flag with the Russian flag during communism

There was green and horns the green to represent grass horns to represent animals Russian flag was red and had a hammer to represent role in socialist society. Yellow star to represent the communist party

Human characteristics of snowball

Vivacious pig, quicker in speech, inventive, not considered to the same depth of character, highly intelligent, good speaker