animal farm midterm

Question 1

Who does Old Major identify, in his speech, as the primary adversary of the animals

Answer 1

Mankind

Question 2

What is the first vote that Old Major puts to the animals

Answer 2

To decide whether or not rats are comrades

Question 3

What is the name of the song that Old Major teaches the animals

Answer 3

Beasts of England

Question 4

After Old Major’s death, the animals begin to prepare for the eventual rebellion. When do they anticipate this rebellion taking place

Answer 4

They don’t know, but they don’t think it will be within their own lifetime

Question 5

Which animals are considered the cleverest, and thus take on the task of organizing and preparing for the coming rebellion

Answer 5

The pigs

Question 6

Which animal on the farm is portrayed as vain, shallow, and superficial

Answer 6

Mollie

Question 7

Which animal on the farm is admired for his/her strength of character and how hardworking he/she is

Answer 7

Boxer

Question 8

What story does Moses the raven spread among the animals

Answer 8

That after the animals die, they go to a magical land called SugarCandy Mountain

Question 9

Which of the pigs is the most idealistic and the most vocal in advocating for the principles of Animalism

Answer 9

Snowball

Question 10

What ultimately brings about the rebellion

Answer 10

Mr. Jones and his men neglect to feed the animals

Question 11

All of the objects burned and destroyed by the animals after the rebellion are ______

Answer 11

Symbols of the animal’s opression

Question 12

What do the animals decide to do with the farmhouse

Answer 12

preserve is as a museum

Question 13

Which of the following is NOT one of the seven commandments of Animalism

Answer 13

All animals must work

Question 14

What happens to the milk at the end of Chapter 2

Answer 14

It disappears, and the animals do not know what happened to it

Question 15

Which of the following best explains how Old Major is like Karl Marx

Answer 15

He has a vision of a future society that is free and egalitarian

Question 16

When animals gather to listen to Old Major’s dream, how are they arranged

Answer 16

The animals are grouped by species. There is some sort of hierarchy (subtle): dogs and pigs on top.

Question 17

Who does Old Major identify as the enemy? Why?

Answer 17

Old Major identifies Man as the enemy because Man is the only animal that consumes without producing

Question 18

Old Major says, “And remember also that in fighting against Man, we must not come to resemble him.” What specific vices of man does Major identify?

Answer 18

No animal may live in a house, sleep in a bed, wear clothes, drink alcohol, smoke tobacco, touch money, engage in trade, tyrannize over his own kid, or hill any other animal.

Question 19

What developments occur in regards to the rebellion after Major’s death

Answer 19

The animals, primarily the pigs, start to develop it into a thought. They’re laying the groundwork and setting a basic philosophy for the future generations to rebel

Question 20

Why don’t the pigs like Moses’s stories about SugarCandy Mountain

Answer 20

Moses’s stories about SugarCandy Mountain distracts the animals from the philosophy and, if the animals believe they’ll end up somewhere happy, the animals are more likely to be complacent

Question 21

After overthrowing Mr. Jones, what do the animals burn? Why?

Answer 21

The animals go into the harness room and burn all the tools in it that Mr. Jones used to hurt the animals or force them to obey (harnesses, dog chains, knives, halters, nose bags, whips, ribbons, etc.)

Question 22

What is the animals’ perception of the farmhouse, where Mr. Jones lived? What do they decide about the farmhouse?

Answer 22

Shocking to see the degree of luxury compared to theirs.
Preserve as is to be a monument to the past.

The animals were both frightened of entering the farmhouse and in awe of its luxury. They decided that the farmhouse would be a museum and no one would ever live there.

Question 23

What are the Seven Commandments of Animalism?

Answer 23

1. Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy
2. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend
3. No animal shall wear clothes
4. No animal shall sleep in a bed
5. No animal shall drink alcohol
6. No animal shall kill another animal
7. All animals are equal