Vocabulary
Characters
Major Events
Literary Elements
Miscellaneous
100
This is a vocabulary word that means evilness.
What is malignity?
100
This character said, "I will work harder."
Who is Boxer?
100
In the last chapter of the novel, the pigs changed the name of the farm to this name.
What is Manor Farm?
100
This is a literary term describing an entire story or text filled with symbols or ideas, people, conflicts, plot events, or aspects of setting that have meaning beyond their literal meanings.
What is an allegory?
100
How do the pigs alter the fourth commandment, "No Animal Shall Sleep in a bed"?
What is with sheets?
200
This is a vocabulary word that means spontaneous or unplanned.
What is impromptu?
200
These animals chanted the slogan, "Four legs good, two legs bad," again and again.
Who are the sheep?
200
Who is responsible for destroying the windmill for the second time in the novel?
Who are Frederick and his men?
200
In Animal Farm, Sugarcandy Mountain is a symbol for what?
What is heaven or an afterlife?
200
Which two characters had a rivalry for command in the novel?
Who are Snowball and Napoleon?
300
This is a vocabulary word that means occurring after death.
What is posthumously?
300
This character was the propaganda dispenser on the farm.
Who is Squealer?
300
This event is the impetus (the force that makes something happen) for the initial rebellion against Jones.
What is Jones forgets to feed the starving animals?
300
In Chapter 10 Orwell writes, "The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which." This is a literary element that means a situation in which the opposite of what is expected occurs.
What is irony?
300
Early on at the meetings, who do the animals agree with?
What is whomever was speaking at the time.
400
This is a vocabulary word that means difficult to control.
What is restive?
400
This character gives a speech in Chapter 10 about the alliance between his farm and Animal Farm (Manor Farm).
Who is Mr. Pilkington?
400
In Chapter 9, how do the pigs acquire the money to buy themselves another case of whisky?
What is the sale of Boxer to the knacker.
400
At the end of the novel, Napoleon announces that the farm's flag will now be a simple green flag without a hoof or horn. What did the hoof and horn symbolize?
What is unity, equality, freedom from humans/dictatorship, or the rebellion?
400
Why did the pigs abolish the singing of "Beasts of England" toward the end of the novel?
What is they said it was a song of a rebellion, and the goals of the rebellion had already been accomplished?
500
This is a vocabulary word that means disgraceful or shameful.
What is ignominious.
500
This human worked as a solicitor, handling business relations between Animal Farm and humans.
Who is Mr. Whymper?
500
Immediately after the rebellion, the pigs reveal they have taught themselves to do what?
What is read and write?
500
Power corrupts is an example of this literary element, or life lesson, that Orwell includes in his novel.
What is theme?
500
This is a piece of writing that holds up to ridicule (or makes fun of) the wrongdoing of its subject to try to effect change.
What is a satire?