Chapter 1



ENGLISH 9 Animal Farm Name - _____________________________________

DIRECTIONS - Answer all in complete, detailed sentences in your notebooks.

Chapter 1

1. According to Old Major, what is the cause of all the animals' problems?

2. What motto does Major give the animals?

3. List the commandments Major gives the animals?

4. Why do the animals like the song "Beasts of England" so much that they memorize it on the spot? To what emotions (pathos) and needs (purposes) does it appeal?

Chapter 2

1. According to Orwell, how are Napoleon and Snowball different?

2. Why don’t the pigs like the raven Moses' stories about Sugarcandy Mountain?

3. What causes the animals to finally rebel against Mr. Jones and his four farmhands?

4. What do you think happens to the cows’ milk? What makes you think so?

Chapter 3 

1. What further examples of the specific differences between the pigs and the other animals appear in this chapter?

2. What are Napoleon's ideas about education?

3. How is Squealer able to convince the other animals to accept whatever Napoleon decides?

4. What is suspicious about Squealer’s explanation about the milk and apples? What reason would he have to lie?

Chapter 4

1. Describe what happens in the Battle of the Cowshed.

2. What was Snowball's part in the Battle of the Cowshed?

3. Where is Napoleon during the battle?

4. Why is Jones’s gun placed at the foot of the flagpole? What new purpose will it serve?

Chapter 5

1. What do the other humans think about Animal Farm? What rumors do they spread about it?

2. Why does Mollie leave Animal Farm?

3. Summarize the different views and plans of Snowball and Napoleon.

4. Why does Snowball leave the farm?

5. What changes does Napoleon make after Snowball leaves the farm? Why don’t the other animals protest?

Chapter 6

1. What reasons do the pigs give for beginning trade with other farms? How could this be both a good and a bad idea?

2. What is the significance of the pigs moving into the farmhouse? What reasons do the pigs tell the other animals? Why do you think they really wanted to live there?

3. How is the windmill destroyed? Why does Napoleon blame the destruction of the windmill on Snowball?

Chapter 7

1. Why does Napoleon order the animals to stop singing "Beasts of England"?

2. Detail what happens in the Hen Rebellion.

3. Why do the animals “confess”?

Chapter 8

1. How is the Sixth Commandment changed?

2. Why don’t the animals question all of these changes? Why do they believe Squealer?

3. What does Napoleon decide to do with the timber? (note how he changes mind several times)

4. What violent tactics does Frederick use on his farm? What does this relate to in real life?

5. What happens to the windmill? Why does Squealer call this a “victory”?

6. What other commandment did the animals supposedly “remember wrong”?

Chapter 9

1. Why does Napoleon allow Moses to return and tell his stories about Sugarcandy Mountain?

2. What happens to Boxer?

Chapter 10

1. What is the new commandment and how has it been true from the beginning?

2. What happens to the pigs’ appearance? What is Orwell’s final claim/argument in this last scene

Animal Farm Vocabulary

Satire - work that mocks or ridicules human faults in order to bring about change

Allegory - a work that has a literal meaning, but the characters and events also represent a larger meaning (animals on a farm with oppressive farmer/people living under an oppressive government)

Fable - story that teaches a moral lesson with animals as characters

Propaganda - wide spread promotion of a particular biased, misleading doctrine/ideas furthered by the media or government (for positive or negative purposes)

Opportunist - a person who takes advantage of any opportunity for self-serving purposes

Utopia - a perfect society

Communism - total government control, private property is abolished, the idea is equality for all (though this is rarely achieved as those at the top become power/control-hungry)

Totalitarianism - complete political control by one person

Purge - to get rid of anyone who is undesirable

Mutiny - open rebellion against the superior authority

Tactics - strategy, political maneuverings

Elite –upper class, nobility

Bourgeoisie – upper middle class (merchants and business owners), often wealthy enough to have political power

Proletariat - the working class, peasants

Dissident – person who opposes/speaks out against the government

Windfall - unexpected good fortune; excess

Bolsheviks – Lenin’s radical group who followed Marxist doctrine (communism) and wanted equality for all; seized power in 1917 from Tsar Nicholas II; after, Russia became known as the Soviet Union until the late 80s

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