Animal Farm

Characters

100

"Large, rather fierce-looking Berkshire boar" 

Hint: Corruption, Control

Napeleon

200

"young, vivacious, and energetic white boar"

Hint: Battle of Cowshed

Snowball

300

"Enormous cart-horse nearly eighteen hands high"

Hint: "I will work harder!" 'Napeoleon is always right!"

Boxer

400

"Small, fat porker, with a shrill voice"

Hint: Propaganda

Squealer

500

"Mr. Jones special pet"

Hint: Russian Orthodox church

Moses

Basic Knowledge

100

Who led the battle of cowshed?

Snowball

200

What are the 7 commandments?

• Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.
• Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.
• No animal shall wear clothes.
• No animal shall sleep in a bed.
• No animal shall drink alcohol.
• No animal shall kill any other animal.
• All animals are equal

300

Major themes of Animal Farm

Answers may vary.

(Acceptable answers: Corruption of Power, Inequality, Control, Propaganda, Soviet Union)

400

True or False:

Animal Farm is an allegory

True

500

What is the core ideology?

Animalism

Advanced Knowledge

100

True or False:

The pigs are fair leaders who improve the general lives of other animals.

False

200

Who does Mr. Jones represent?

Csar Nicholas II

300

What does Animal Farm allude to?

The Russian Revolution of 1917 and the rise of totalitarianism.

400

What did the 7 commandments change to? 

• Four legs good, two legs better
• No animal shall wear clothes
• No animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets
• No animal shall drink alcohol to excess
• No animal shall kill any other animal without cause
• All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

500

Why is this book heavily banned?

Animal Farm is primarily banned for its heavy anti-communist themes and sharp critique of totalitarianism

Literary Elements

100

"And a moment later, out from the door of the farmhouse came a long file of pigs, all walking on their hind legs." (Chapter 10)

Personification

200

"Though not yet full-grown, they were huge dogs, and as fierce-looking as wolves." (Chapter 5, describing Napoleon's puppies)

Simile

300

"In glowing sentences he painted a picture of Animal Farm as it might be when sordid labour was lifted from the animals' backs." (Chapter 5, describing Snowball

Metaphor

400

"Four legs good, two legs bad." (Chapter 2, originally taught by Snowball)

Maxim (Slogan)

500

"This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half." (Chapter 6)

Juxtaposition (ideology vs reality) ("voluntary slavery")