THE CORRUPTION OF SOCIALIST IDEALS IN THE SOVIET UNION, THE DANGER OF A NAÏVE WORKING CLASS, THE SOCIETAL TENDENCY TOWARD CLASS STRATIFICATION, THE ABUSE OF LANGUAGE AS INSTRUMENTAL TO THE ABUSE OF POWER
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Who does Old Major represent from history?
Karl Marxx
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Ruled 1894- 1917; weak/ ineffective leader; tolerated little opposition; ruled Russia harshly
Czar Nicholas II
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An emperor of Russia before 1917
Tsar
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In Ch. 4, what are animals everywhere doing in solidarity with the animals of Animal Farm?
Singing "Beasts of England"
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What kind of regime/government does Animal Farm satirize?
Communist government
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Farmer Jones is an allegory for whom?
Czar Nicholas II
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Name the first official leader of the USSR.
Lenin
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What is a work that mocks a specific view, group, or institution?
a. Allegory
b. Farce
c. Fable
d. Satire
Satire
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What is the design on the animals’ flag?
A horn and hoof
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“All men are enemies. All animals are comrades” is an example of?
Propoganda
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Which animal represents Leon Trotsky?
Snowball
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Who did Stalin defeat as leader after the death of Lenin?
Leon Trotsky
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The thoughts of Old Major were formed into a concept called
Animalism
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Where does Snowball learn strategies of warfare?
Military history books about Julius Ceasar
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Who says “the only good human being is a dead one.” Why?
Snowball says this to Boxer when Boxer believes that he has unintentionally killed a stable boy in the chaos, expresses his regret at taking a life, even though it is a human one.
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Double Jeopardy
Which animal represents the exploited working classes?
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A social system in which properties/goods are owned in common; distributed equally
Communism
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Motif
Motifs are recurring structures, contrasts, and literary devices that can help to develop and inform the text’s major themes
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Which character’s skull was cleaned of flesh, and set by the flag pole?
Old Major
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What are 2 motifs in Animal Farm?
Songs, State Riturals
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Which Russian political figure does Napoleon represent?
Joseph Stalin
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In what year did the revolution take place?
1917
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Fable
a short story, typically with animals as characters, conveying a moral.