Animal Farm
Russian Revolution
Terminology
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100

This pig is most likely to take future eggs, puppies, milk, and apples for his own.

Who is Napoleon?


100
This 19th-century German thinker put forth that workers are the victims of a class struggle against capitalist owners.

Who was Karl Marx?  

(Who was Friedrich Engels? is also correct)

100

This term describes an extremely bad place or society with great suffering or injustice -- a 'utopia gone wrong.'

What is a dystopia?

100

Correct this sentence:

Lila's sister brought her backpack here.

Lila's sister brought (Lila's/the sister's) backpack...

100

Members of Jonas' community take pills at adolescence to avoid what they call these.

What are 'stirrings'?

200
This animal most closely represents the proletariat.

Who is Boxer?

200

This person led Russia until 1917 as its sovereign emperor; he was ousted in the Bolshevik Revolution.

Who was Tsar Nicholas II?

200
This describes the opposite of a democracy — a state in which everything is controlled by a centralized government or ruler.

What is totalitarian(ism)?

200

Correct this sentence:

My little brother's tears had little affect on me.

Change affect to --> effect.
200

The blue tablet will do this to its consumer in Matched.

What is, keep them alive for days without food?

300

Squealer most closely represents this public messaging function of a totalitarian state.

What is propaganda?

300

This leader emerged from the Bolshevik party to take over completely after Lenin's death in 1924. He led Russia as an increasingly totalitarian state until 1953.

Who was Joseph Stalin?

300

This describes any story that contains a deeper message or hidden meaning through symbolism.

What is an allegory?

300

Correct these sentences:

The Eagles are a superior team on paper, but the Chiefs have a tradition of clutch playoff performances. This is why the smart money might be on the Chiefs.

This what? (fill it in) --

"This tradition of winning"

"This resilience"

etc...

300

June is introduced to these underground, brutal battles in Legend.

What are Skiz fights?

400

The Battle of the Cowshed could represent any one of three wars in Russia's history.

(Any one is correct).  What is...?

The October Revolution (November Revolution is acceptable).

The Russian Civil War.

The Battle of Stalingrad.

400

This mystic and faith-healer rose to prominence in the Tsar's family after taking care of his hemophiliac son, Alexei. He was hated by many outside the royal family and finally assassinated in 1916.

Who was Rasputin?

400

This Greek term describes a rhetorical appeal to authority or credibility in persuasive writing.  For example, "As a doctor, I recommend..."

What is ethos?

400

Identify the dependent clause in the following:

Whenever I go to the store, I always try to find the cheapest eggs.

"Whenever I go to the store" (can't stand alone as a complete thought).

400
This is the name that Luke gives June's family before they meet.

What is the Sports Family?

500
"Animal Hero, Second Class" is conferred on this animal after the Battle of the Cowshed.

Who is the dead sheep, posthumously?

500

This Bolshevik idealist competed with Stalin for control of Russian policies and government. He was ousted and later assassinated in Mexico City in 1940.

Who was Leon Trotsky?

500

"USSR" stands for this (has to be exact).

What is the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics?

500
THEY'RE, IT'S, and YOU'RE are examples of these, in which an apostrophe stands in for a part of the verb.

What are contractions?

500

In Scythe, this is the name of the city (not unlike St. Louis) in which the Scythes all convene.

What is Fulcrum City?

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