Animal Antics
Recall important characters, actions, and plot events.
Recall important characters, actions, and plot events.
This prize-winning boar inspires the animals to imagine a life without human masters.
Who is Old Major?
The Seven Commandments are painted on the wall of this structure.
What is the big barn?
According to Old Major, this creature is the animals’ greatest enemy.
What is Man?
“I will work harder!”
Who is Boxer?
“Four legs good, two legs ___.”
What is bad?
These two cart horses are known for their strength, loyalty, and teamwork.
Who are Boxer and Clover?
This commandment originally forbids animals from sleeping in beds.
What is “No animal shall sleep in a bed”?
Old Major teaches the animals this revolutionary song.
What is “Beasts of England”?
This character repeatedly claims that life was better in the past and speaks about Sugarcandy Mountain.
Who is Moses?
“I will work ___!”
What is harder?
This vain horse enjoys sugar, ribbons, and attention more than revolutionary sacrifice.
Who is Mollie?
These two words are secretly added to the commandment about sleeping in beds.
What is “with sheets”?
Old Major describes the animals’ lives using three harsh adjectives: miserable, laborious, and this.
What is short?
This animal responds to troubling events with the belief that Napoleon is always right.
Who is Boxer?
“Napoleon is always ___.”
What is right?
Napoleon secretly raises these animals to become his personal guards.
What are the puppies/dogs?
After the pigs begin drinking, these words are added to the commandment against alcohol.
What are “to excess”?
By describing the animals’ suffering and stolen offspring, Old Major primarily uses this rhetorical appeal.
What is pathos?
This character uses statistics and persuasive language to convince the animals that conditions are improving.
Who is Squealer?
“Four legs good, two legs ___!”
What is better?
After the windmill is destroyed for the second time, the animals defeat the humans in this violent confrontation.
What is the Battle of the Windmill?
By the end of the novel, all seven rules have been replaced by this single contradictory commandment.
What is “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others”?
Old Major repeatedly asks questions whose answers seem obvious. This persuasive technique encourages the animals to reach his intended conclusion.
What are rhetorical questions?
This cynical animal says that donkeys live a long time and that none of the others has ever seen a dead donkey.
Who is Benjamin?
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than ___.”
What are others?