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Important Figures
Government
Social Classes
Terminology
Animal Farm
100
A vain goat who tends to admire herself with ribbons.
Who is Mollie?
100
1. A supporter of the free market and capitalism.
Who is a capitalist?
100
workers or working-class people, regarded collectively.
What is proletariat?
100
transfer of income, wealth or property from some individuals to others caused by a social mechanism such as taxation, monetary policies, welfare, charity, divorce or tort law. The desirability and effects of redistribution are actively debated on ethical and economic grounds.
What is redistribution of wealth?
100
The drunk owner of the farm.
Who is Mr. Jones?
200
A lazy winged animal who is fed crusts of bread soaked in beer.
Who is Moses?
200
1. A member of the Communist party or movement
Who is a communist?
200
people who work for or engage in a forcible overthrow of a government or social order in favor of a new system.
What are revolutionaries?
200
1. Make full use of and derive benefit from (a resource) 2. A bold or daring feat
What is exploitation?
200
Name the basis of the sevens commandments.
What is the phrase "four legs good, 2 legs bad"?
300
Leon (Lev or Leib, Davidovich Bronstein) 1879–1940, Russian revolutionary and writer: minister of war 1918–1925.
Who is Trotsky?
300
1. supreme power or sovereignty held by a single person.
What is monarchy?
300
a class of people above the middle class, having the highest social rank or standing based on wealth, family connections, and the like
What is the upper class?
300
a sudden, violent, and illegal seizure of power from a government.
What is a coup?
300
An allegory for communism in the novel.
What is Animalism?
400
Vladimir Ilyich ______ was a Russian communist revolutionary, politician and political theorist who served as the leader of the Russian SFSR from 1917, and then concurrently as Premier of the Soviet Union from 1922, until 1924.
Who is Lenin?
400
1. The stage in Marxist-Leninist theory intermediate between capitalism and communism, in which collective ownership of the economy under the dictatorship of the proletariat has not yet been successfully achieved.
What is socialism?
400
1. The capitalist class who own most of society's wealth and means of production.
What is bourgeoisie?
400
1. (of a monarch) Renounce one's throne 2. Fail to fulfill or undertake (a responsibility or duty)
What is abdication?
400
Name the publisher of the novel.
What is Signet Classics?
500
Russian revolutionary who was head of state after Nicholas II abdicated but was overthrown by the Bolsheviks (1881-1970)
Who is Kerensky?
500
1. A class of persons holding exceptional rank and privileges,especially the hereditary nobility.
What is an aristocrat?
500
The open class system has a hierarchy system, however a person’s social status is solely based on achievement. Becoming powerful has nothing to do with gender, race, ethnicity, or family background, but achieved completely with effort. There are no distincts schisms in society.
What is class system?
500
A governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism.
What is Fascism?
500
Sing the first two stanzas of The Beast of England.
What is Beasts of England, beasts of Ireland, Beasts of every land and clime, Hearken to my joyful tidings of the golden future time. Soon or late the day is coming, Tyrant Man shall be o’erthrown, And the fruitful fields of England Shall be trod by beasts alone.