Animal Farm Context

Question 1

Old Major

Answer 1

Karl Marx - founded the idea of communism, but died in March 1917 before the revolution

Vladamir Lenin - leader of the Bolshevik Revolution, his body was later put in display in Moscow similar to how Old Major’s skull is mounted at the foot of the flagpole

Question 2

Napoleon

Answer 2

Joseph Stalin - Soviet dictator who came to lead Russia after the death of Vladamir Lenin

Napoleon Bonaparte - seized power after the French revolution and made himself emperor

Question 3

Snowball

Answer 3

Leon Trotsky - was involved in foreign affairs and policy making following the Revolution, believed that communism could only survive if they promoted it around the world and planned to industrialise Russia during the economic crisis, was exiled from Russia similar to Snowball

Question 4

Boxer

Answer 4

the unquestioning workers of the soviet union who worked themselves to death in hope of a better future for all

Question 5

Clover

Answer 5

the maternal counterpart to Boxer, represents the working class in Russia who kept faith in the Soviet dream

Question 6

Squealer

Answer 6

represents soviet propaganda

Question 7

Mollie

Answer 7

represents the materialistic middle class who couldn’t sacrifice the meaningless baubles with which the old system bribes her, similar to how many people left Soviet Russia after the October Revolution

Question 8

Benjamin

Answer 8

the voice of cynics who believe all systems are as bad as each other, sees the issues with Animalism but does nothing to challenge it

Question 9

Muriel

Answer 9

represents an educated working class who slowly realise the gravity of the situation, but are powerless to stop it

Question 10

The Puppies

Answer 10

KGB, Stalin’s secret police

Question 11

Minimus

Answer 11

soviet propaganda, similar to Squealer

Question 12

Pinkeye

Answer 12

represents Stalin’s expendable subordinates, as he is Napoleon’s food-tester

Question 13

Mr Jones

Answer 13

Tsar Nicholas III

White Army - during battle of the Cowshed

Question 14

Mrs Jones

Answer 14

Tsarina Alexandra

Question 15

Pilkington

Answer 15

represents the UK

Question 16

Frederick

Answer 16

represents Germany

Question 17

Mr Whymper

Answer 17

represents various foreign dignitaries who went to Soviet Russia and were used as propaganda tools to show the rest of the world how great Russia supposedly was

Question 18

Moses

Answer 18

organised religion, specifically Russian Orthodox Church

Question 19

The Cat

Answer 19

represents the Russian upper class, as she is accustomed to being pampered by Mr Jones and his family, since she offers a valuable service and is good at showing her affection

Question 20

The Cows

Answer 20

represent people who base their decisions on expected returns; their only motivation for supporting the revolution is to keep their milk, which doesn’t even happen

Question 21

The Chickens

Answer 21

represent the peasantry who rebelled because they were left out of communist ideals

Question 22

The Ducks

Answer 22

the peasantry who were left out of communist ideals

Question 23

Bluebell, Jessie and Pincher

Answer 23

the oppressed Russian population under Joseph Stalin

Question 24

The Sheep

Answer 24

the most stupid elements of society, who accept exactly what they’re told even though they don’t understand it

Question 25

Young Porkers

Answer 25

people abused by the higher up echelons in society

Question 26

Apples and Milk

Answer 26

the Kronstadt Rebellion - the failed uprising of Soviet sailors to resist Bolshevik despotism in 1921

the turning point where the animals could have put their foot down and prevented everything else from happening

Question 27

windmill

Answer 27

Stalin’s Five Year Plan

Question 28

shortage of food

Answer 28

famine

Question 29

executions

Answer 29

show trials and purges of 1930s

Question 30

sale of wood to Frederick

Answer 30

Nazi-Soviet pact of 1939-41

Question 31

Frederick betrays Animal Farm

Answer 31

Operation Barbarossa (where Stalin violated the Nazi-Soviet pact in 1941-42)

Question 32

Battle of the Windmill

Answer 32

Battle of Stalingrad

Question 33

closing scene

Answer 33

Teheran Conference of 1943 where Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt met to discuss post-war settlement

Question 34

Battle of the Cowshed

Answer 34

Russian Civil War 1917-22 where Bolsheviks defeated the combined forces of their enemies

Question 35

The Rats

Answer 35

natural enmity between predator and prey helps convey conflicting interests among different social groups

Question 36

lithograph of Queen Victoria

Answer 36

this is found in the farmhouse, and links to how Tsarina Alexandra was Victoria’s granddaughter

Question 37

green flag

Answer 37

similar to the flag of the Soviet Union

Question 38

Snowball’s windmill plans

Answer 38

Trotsky’s calls for increased industrialisation in the 1923 economic crisis

Question 39

Napoleon and Snowball’s debates

Answer 39

Trotksy believed that the Soviet regime would only survive if they promoted it worldwide, similar to how Snowball wanted to promote Animalism on other farms, but Stalin wanted to focus on socialism in one country, similar to Napoleon

Question 40

Snowball’s expulsion

Answer 40

Trotsky’s expulsion in 1928

Question 41

Old Major’s skull

Answer 41

Vladimir Lenin’s body, which is preserved and on display

Question 42

Comrade Napleon

Answer 42

structured similarly to Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred Tennyson

Question 43

attacks on Frederick

Answer 43

Stalin’s attacks on Hitler in 1930s

Question 44

Napoleon standing firm during Battle of the Windill

Answer 44

mirrors how Stalin stayed in Moscow during the German advance

Question 45

Seven Commandments

Answer 45

the power of propaganda and the malleable nature of history and information when people are ignorant of facts