Character Analysis
Setting
Author/
History
100
Who is the owner of the Manor Farm?
Mr Jones
100
Where does the story of Animal Farm begin?
Manor Farm
100
Who wrote Animal Farm? Which year was the book first published?
George Orwell, 1945
200
Who is the most respected animal in Manor Farm?
Old Major
200
Where did the animals gather for Old Major's speech?
One end of the big barn.
200
Name the King of russia before 1917
Nicholas II
300
"...respected for his steadiness of character and tremendous powers of work." The quote describes which animal in the farm?
Boxer the cart horse
300
If Animal Farm is an allegory of the Russian Revolution, if the Manor Farm represents Russian, then what does Mr Jone's House represent?
The Tsar/Czar's palace.
300
Name 2 Russian leaders in History that is associated with Animal Farm.
Nicholas II, Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky
400
"He seldom talked, and when he did it was usually to make some cynical remark...." Name the character based on this phrase
Benjamin the donkey
400
In the first three pages or so Orwell ‘sets the scene’. What did he describe in particular? What details does he want you to concentrate on?
He described the sequence of entry of the animals in particular. He wants us to concentrate on the order in which animals enter as well as the descriptions of the animals entering the speech area.
400
Who is Karl Marx?
He was a Prussian-German philosopher, economist, sociologist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. His ideas played a significant role in the establishment of the social sciences and the development of the socialist movement. He also wrote 'The Communist Manifesto"
500
Thinking about what the Major said, what other scenarios at the moment can you think of where people want freedom from a similar situation?
People who are under totalitarian/very strict/inhumane rules of governments or organisations. (open ended)
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