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Final Round: Connections between the Novel and History
Vocabulary
100
The following passage parallels the prediction of this historical person: “That is my message to you, comrades: Rebellion! I do not know when that Rebellion will come, it might be in a week or in a hundred years, but I know, just as surely as I see this straw beneath my feet, that sooner or later justice will be done” (30).
Who is Karl Marx?
100
This character is described in the following passage: He “was a large, rather fierce-looking Berkshire boar, the only Berkshire on the farm, not much of a talker, but with a reputation for getting his own way” (35).
Who is Napoleon?
100
Animal Farm was published in this year.
What is 1945?
100
The following passage represents the elimination of religion, specifically this church, of which Czar Nicholas II was a member: “Moses sprang off his perch and flapped after [Mrs. Jones], croaking loudly” (39).
What is the Russian Orthodox Church?
100
This word means domesticated. Moses is referred to as this kind of raven.
What is tame?
200
The following passage parallels the assassination of this historical person: “Comrades, here and now I pronounce the death sentence upon Snowball. ‘Animal Hero, Second Class,’ and half a bushel of apples to any animal who brings him to justice. A full bushel to anyone who captures him alive!” (82)
Who is Leon Trotsky?
200
This character is described in the following passage: “ . . . the foolish, pretty white mare who drew Mr. Jones’s trap, came mincing daintily in, chewing at a lump of sugar. She took a place near the front and began flirting her white mane, hoping to draw attention to the red ribbons it was plaited with” (27).
Who is Mollie?
200
Although Orwell was born in India, he is considered to be an author from this country because he spent most of his life there.
What is England?
200
The following passage represents this, the name of the working class: “From morning to night he was pushing and pulling, always at the spot where the work was hardest” (46).
What is the proletariet?
200
This word refers to the state of being guided by feelings and emotion instead of by logic or reason. Snowball says, "No this, comrades!"
What is sentimentality?
300
The following passage parallels this event in Russian history: “Jones and all his men, with half a dozen others from Foxwood and Pinchfield, had entered the five-barred gate and were coming up the cart-track that led to the farm . . . Obviously, they were going to attempt the recapture of the farm” (56).
What is the Civil War (Red Army v. White Army)?
300
This character is described in the following passage: “ . . . the oldest animal on the farm and the worst tempered. He seldom talked, and when he did, it was usually to make some cynical remark—for instance, he would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail and no flies” (26).
Who is Benjamin?
300
Stalin died in this year.
What is 1953?
300
The following passage parallels this, an agreement between Hitler and Stalin: “They were struck with dumb surprise when Napoleon announced that he had sold the pile of timber to Frederick . . . Throughout the whole period of his seeming friendship with Pilkington, Napoleon had really been in secret agreement with Frederick” (104).
What is the Nonagression Pact (1939)?
300
This word means the act of moving someone or something forward. Snowball says, "A bird's wing, comrades, is an organ of this and not of manipulation" (51).
What is propulsion?
400
The following passage parallels this event in Russian history: “Napoleon now called upon them to confess their crimes . . . When they had finished their confession, the dogs promptly tore their throats out, and in a terrible voice Napoleon demanded whether any other animal had anything to confess . . . And so the tale of confessions and executions went on, until there was a pile of corpses lying before Napoleon’s feet and the air was heavy with the smell of blood . . .” (93).
What is Stalin's Great Purge?
400
This character says the following: “Donkeys live a long time. None of you has ever seen a dead donkey” (47).
Who is Benjamin?
400
Orwell did not believe that Karl Marx's vision of communism could ever succeed because he believed that humans are this.
What are greedy, selfish, and power-hungry?
400
The following passages represent this historical event, when Hitler betrayed Stalin: “The bank-notes were forgeries! Frederick had got the timber for nothing!” (106). “The very next morning the attack came. The animals were at breakfast when the look-outs came racing in with the news that Frederick and his followers had already come through the five-barred gate” (106).
What is Operation Barbarossa (June 22, 1941)?
400
This refers to the buyer of worn-out animals who uses their carcasses as animal food, fertilizer, or other products such as glue. Benjamin exclaims, "They are taking Boxer to [this person]!" (123)
Who is a knacker?
500
The following passage represents Stalin's use of propaganda, specifically this--the official newspaper of the Soviety Union: “He was a brilliant talker, and when he was arguing some difficult point he had a way of skipping from side to side and whisking his tail which was somehow very persuasive. The others said of Squealer that he could turn black into white” (36).
What is Pravda?
500
This "person" says the following: “But they saw now that the Commandment had not been violated; for clearly there was good reason for killing the traitors who had leagued themselves with Snowball” (98).
Who is the narrator?
500
Napoleon buries this at the end of the novel, which shows that he has abandoned his previous commitment to Animalism.
What is Old Major's skull?
500
The following passage represents the tensions between England and the Soviet Union in the era known as this: “Yes, a violent quarrel was in progress. There were shoutings, bangings on the table, sharp suspicious glances, furious denials. The source of the trouble appeared to be that Napoleon and Mr. Pilkington had each played an ace of spades simultaneously” (139).
What is the Cold War?
500
This words means to surrender. The hens, for example, finally did this after Napoleon stopped their rations.
What is capitulate?
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