Animal Farm quotations

Question 1

Chapter 1
I think I may say that I understand the __________ __________ __________ on this earth as well as any animal now living. It is about this that I wish to speak to you.”

Answer 1

nature of life

Question 2

PROPAGANDA, POWER
Chapter 5
“Squealer spoke so persuasively, and the three dogs who happened to be with him growled so threateningly, that they accepted his explanation __________ __________ __________.”

Answer 2

without further question

Question 3

POWER,
Chapter 1
“Weak or strong, clever or simple, we are all __________. No animal must ever kill any other animal. All animals are equal.”

Answer 3

brothers

Question 4

What character says this quotation?
“Weak or strong, clever or simple, we are all brothers. No animal must ever kill any other animal. All animals are equal.”

Answer 4

Old Major

Question 5

PROPAGANDA, POWER
Chapter 3
“Four legs good, __________ legs bad.”

Answer 5

two

Question 6

PROPAGANDA
Chapter 10
“Four legs good, __________ legs better”

Answer 6

two

Question 7

POWER
Napoleon
Our __________, __________ Napoleon

Answer 7

Leader, comrade

Question 8

Napoleon
Had a reputation for _______________________

Answer 8

getting his own way

Question 9

POWER
Napoleon
___________ on Snowball’s plans for the windmill

Answer 9

urinated

Question 10

POWER
Napoleon
All animals are ________, but some are ___________________

Answer 10

more equal than others

Question 11

POWER
Napoleon
Carried a _______ in his trotter

Answer 11

whip

Question 12

EDUCATION, PROPAGANDA
Snowball
described as “________” in speech than Napoleon

Answer 12

quicker

Question 13

POWER
Snowball
“more ________” than Napoleon

Answer 13

inventive

Question 14

POWER
Snowball
“___________” in his efforts for the farm

Answer 14

indefatigable

Question 15

REVOLUTION, PROPAGANDA
Snowball
No ___________, comrade! The only _____ human is a ______________

Answer 15

sentimentality, good, dead one

Question 16

PROPAGANDA
Snowball
“Vote for Snowball and the _______________”

Answer 16

Three Day Week
(allegory for the Russian Five Year Plan, which aimed to boost agricultural and industrial production but kept getting another 5 years added.

Question 17

Snowball
Snowball’s __________ had carried them all away

Answer 17

eloquence

Question 18

Squealer
could turn________ into ________

Answer 18

black, white

Question 19

Squealer
________ and _________

Answer 19

cunning, sly

Question 20

Squealer
surely you don’t want __________________

Answer 20

Jones to come back

Question 21

PROPAGANDA
Squealer
A _________ talker

Answer 21

brilliant

Question 22

EDUCATION, POWER
Squealer
Have you any _______ comrades, is it _______________ anywhere?

Answer 22

proof, written down

Question 23

PROPAGANDA, POWER
Squealer
we pigs are ___________

Answer 23

brainworkers

Question 24

LANGUAGE, PROPAGANDA, EDUCATION
Squealer
The animals __________ or _____________ they ____________

Answer 24

remembered, thought, remembered

Question 25

REVOLUTION
Humans
_____ is the only creature that __________ without _____________

Answer 25

man, consumes, producing

Question 26

POWER, REVOLUTION
Old Major
Remove ______ from the scene and the ____ cause of _______ and overwork is abolished __________

Answer 26

man, root, hunger, forever

Question 27

POWER
Old Major
No animal must ever _________ over his own kind

Answer 27

tyrannise

Question 28

EDUCATION, POWER,
The pigs then revealed,
during the last _______ months, they had taught themselves to ______ and _________
What does this show?

Answer 28

three, read, write
-secretive, further heightens the sense of inequality among the animals and an imbalance of power

Question 29

EDUCATION, POWER
What do the 7 commandments show?

Answer 29

how a lack of education can impact the amount of power you hold.
the noun “commandments” - god issues commandments, divine rules that must be followed, pigs playing god?

Question 30

POWER
How does Napoleon maintain power?

Answer 30

intimidation - the dogs (allegory for Stalin’s secret police and shows how Stalin used violence to control the masses)

manipulation - the executions (allegory for show trials where Stalin eliminated his enemies and shows how totalitarian governments manipulate the law to consolidate their power.)

Question 31

PROPAGANDA, LANGUAGE
Squealer
could turn _______ into ________

Answer 31

black, white

Question 32

Mr Pilkington
The _______ animals of Animal Farm

Answer 32

Lower - contradicts “all animals are equal”

Question 33

Like all of Napoleon’s speeches it was ________ and to the _______

Answer 33

short, point - shows he is no smarter than before at the beginning of the novella

Question 34

There would be ___ need for any of the animals to come in contact with ________ __________, which would clearly be most _______________.

Answer 34

no, human beings, undesirable