Animal Farm: Ch. 1-7

Soviet Union

100

Who did NOT participate in the Russian Revolution?

A) Leon Trostky

B) Vladimir Lenin

C) Joseph Stalin

D) Karl Marx

D) Karl Marx

200

Who was NOT a member of the Romanov family?

A) Nicholas

B) Alexei

C) Anastasia

D) Rasputin

D

300

The revolutionary group that overthrew the Russian Royal family was called...

The Bolsheviks

400

The Soviet Union would show journalists fake villages called __________ villages.

A) Dollhouse

B) Vorgeben

C) Bolshevik

D) Potemkin 

D

500

What is the name of the American journalist who failed to report the severity of the famine in Russia?

A) Upton Sinclair

B) Anderson Cooper

C) Walter Duranty

D) Walter Cronkite 

C

Characters

100

What is the name of Mr. Jones's raven?

Moses

200

Old Major represents

A) Czar Nicholas

B) Vladimir Lenin

C) Rasputin

D) Leon Trotsky

B

300

Which of the following is one of Boxer’s maxims?

A. "I will work harder."

B. "For the Glory of Snowball."

C. "Four legs bad, two legs better."

D. "Napoleon is King."

A

400

Which animal hides during the Battle of the Cowshed?

Mollie

500

Which pig writes the poem lauding Napoleon?

Minimus

Plot

100

How many commandments are there originally?

Seven

200

What song does Napoleon ban from being sung?

"Beasts of England"

300

What is the REAL reason for the windmill’s initial collapse?

A storm/high wind speeds

400

To whom does Napoleon sell the farm’s pile of timber?

Mr. Frederick

500

What is added to the end of "no animal shall kill another animal?"

"Without cause"

Literary Devices

100

Animal Farm is an ________________, meaning that it represents and references real life events.

A. Irony
B. Allegory
C. Alliteration
D. Anecedote

B. Allegory

200

Mr. Jones represents __________________

Czar Nicholas

300

Snowball represents ____________

Leon Trotsky

400

Animal Farm is a _______________, or a type of novel that  criticizes something through the use of humor and exaggeration.

Satire

500

What does Sugarcandy Mountain represent?

Heaven

Orwell

100

Orwell wanted to criticize what when he wrote Animal Farm?

A) Russian "communism"

B) Socialism

C) Sexism

D) Veganism

A)

200

Name another book written by George Orwell.

1984 is one answer, but there are others!

300

Which of the following are NOT reasons Animal Farm was rejected by so many publishers? (Hint: There are TWO correct answers-- find BOTH!)

A) The writing was of poor quality

B) English publishers did not want to anger the USSR

C) Some publishers had trouble understanding Orwell's intentions

D) A similar novel had been published by Ernest Hemingway that very same year

A & D

400

Animal Farm was rejected by ___________'s publishing house.

A) George Eliot

B) e.e. cummmings

C). C.S. Lewis

D). T.S. Eliot

D)

500

Orwell almost lost his manuscript when WHAT happened?

His home was destroyed by German bombers.

FINAL JEOPARDY

500

Write down all seven commandments, as initially written.

• 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.