George Orwell
Scene
Character
theme
language & style
100
What was George Orwell's real name?
Eric Blair
100
The book is set where?
Animal farm
100
Boxer represents whom?
An unthinking worker or Stakhanovite.
100
Which of these is a theme of Animal Farm? a. propaganda b. dictatorship in all its forms c. raising British and American consciousness
b. Dictatorship in all its forms
100
Orwell wanted to see language used in a strong, direct and ? way?
clear
200
Where did he serve as a member of a police force?
Burma
200
It is a mixed farm. What does that mean?
a small one with a variety of animals
200
Marx is which character?
Old Major
200
After whom was Napoleon named?
Emperor Napoleon of France
200
"? can corrupt thought"?
Language
300
He began to write Animal Farm in 1943 but when did he finish it?
1945
300
Tsar Nicholas II was overthown in which year?
1917
300
Who tells half truths and brainwashes the animals?
Squealer
300
Animalism was a made up term to stand for dictatorship. True or false
False it stands for totalitarianism in all its forms
300
Orwell uses ? to make his characters sound silly so as to make his point.
Irony
400
Orwell made the book easy to read, because he was making a point about whose manipulation of the way people by the control of language?
dictators
400
The Red Army of the Bolsheviks was led by whom?
Lenin and Trotsky
400
Whom does Mollie represent?
The Russian Aristocracy
400
With whose help particularly does Napoleon maintain his power base?
the dogs (instruments of terror)
400
Telling lies as though they were the truth is called what?
Double speak
500
What persuades people by twisting the truth?
propaganda
500
Which of these was an intellectual? Lenin, Trotsky or Stalin.
Trotsky
500
Whom does Moses represent?
The Russian Orthodox Church
500
The cult of personality is used to blame whom for anything that goes wrong?
Snowball
500
What is the most obvious feature of Orwell's style in Animal Farm?
The use of allegory
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