Russian revolution
Napoleon, the ruthless pig who seizes absolute power, is widely regarded as an allegorical portrait of Joseph ___.
stalin
Old Major, a prize Middle White ___, summons the animals to the big barn to recount a strange dream.
boar
Once the humans had been driven out, the animals decided to rename the property ___ Farm.
Animal
Boxer’s personal maxim, which he repeated tirelessly, was “I will work ___.”
Harder
The animals’ first great military victory became known as the Battle of the ___.
Cowshed
Mr. Jones, the negligent and perpetually drunken farmer, stands for Tsar ___ II, whose autocratic rule collapsed in 1917.
Nicholas
In his speech, Old Major contends that Man is the only creature that consumes without ___.
producing
Snowball painted the Seven ___ in tall white letters on the tarred wall of the big barn.
Commandments
Napoleon took Jessie and Bluebell’s nine ___ away from their mothers, claiming he would see to their education.
puppies
Mr. Pilkington of ___ and Mr. Frederick of Pinchfield were the neighbouring farmers who refused to help Jones.
Foxwood
Snowball, a gifted orator who is eventually driven off the farm by Napoleon’s dogs, mirrors Leon ___, who was exiled by Stalin.
Trotsky
Old Major insists that whatever goes upon two legs is an ___, whereas whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.
enemy
The mystery of the vanished milk was solved when the animals realised it had been stirred into the pigs’ ___.
mash
Snowball founded numerous committees, among them the Egg Production Committee and the Wild Comrades’ ___ Committee.
Re-education
Mr. Pilkington of ___ and Mr. Frederick of Pinchfield were the neighbouring farmers who refused to help Jones.
Caesar
Squealer’s glib distortion of the facts is the farm’s equivalent of ___, the state-controlled newspaper of the Soviet Union.
Pravda
Old Major warns that no animal must ever live in a house, sleep in a bed, wear clothes, drink alcohol, smoke tobacco, touch money, or engage in ___.
trade
The pigs distilled Old Major’s teachings into a complete system of thought, which they christened ___.
Animalism
Squealer justified the pigs’ monopoly on milk and apples by claiming they contained substances absolutely necessary to the well-being of a ___.
Pig
Boxer reared up and struck out with his great hoofs, stunning a stable-___ and leaving him face down in the mud.
Lad
The Battle of the Cowshed, in which Jones and his allies attempt to retake the farm, alludes to the foreign intervention in the Russian ___ War.
civil
Moses, Mr. Jones’s pet raven, was both a spy and a ___-bearer, though he was also an exceptionally clever talker.
tale
Moses described Sugarcandy Mountain as a place where it was ___ seven days a week and clover was in season all year round.
Sunday
To convince the birds that they too were covered by the maxim “Four legs good, two legs bad”, Snowball argued that a bird’s wing is an organ of ___ rather than manipulation.
propulsion
Jones’s gun was mounted at the foot of the flagstaff, to be fired twice a year: on October the twelfth and on ___ Day.
Midsummer