Animal Farm - Quotations about intelligence

Question 1

First effects of less intelligence

Answer 1

“the sheep and cows lay down behind the / pigs” (1)

Question 2

Old Major wanting to spread his wisdom

Answer 2

“I feel it my duty to pass on to / you such wisdom as I have acquired” (1)

Question 3

Intelligence used to make good point about humans

Answer 3

“He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals” (1)

Question 4

Initially intelligent animal encourages loyalty to a cause, for good

Answer 4

“your resolution must never falter. No / argument must lead you astray” (1)

Question 5

Some cleverness used to manipulate system initially

Answer 5

“the cat, who was afterwards discovered to have / voted on both sides” (1)

Question 6

Initial hint at the power of intelligence

Answer 6

“as for the / clever ones, such as the pigs and dogs, they had the entire song by / heart within a few minutes” (1)

Question 7

Intelligence allows animals’ minds to be free

Answer 7

“Major’s speech had given to the more intelligent / animals on the farm a completely new outlook on life” (2)

Question 8

Benefits of intelligence initially shown, hints at negative power

Answer 8

“The pigs now revealed that during the past three months they / had taught themselves to read and write” (2)

Question 9

Intelligent animals lead initially

Answer 9

“These three had elaborated old Major’s teachings into a complete / system of thought, to which they gave the name of Animalism” (2)

Question 10

Initial difference intelligent animals receive in treatment compared to unintelligent ones after Rebellion

Answer 10

“The pigs / did not actually work, but directed and supervised the others. With / their superior knowledge it was natural that they should assume the / leadership” (3)

Question 11

Consequences of unintelligence beginning to get revealed in early middle

Answer 11

“The other animals understood / how to vote, but could never think of any resolutions of their own” (3)

Question 12

Intelligent animal manipulates others and justifies unfairness with language and lies early on

Answer 12

“You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs / are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us / actually dislike milk and apples. I dislike them myself” (3)

Question 13

Intelligence used by humans to weaken spread of Animalist ideas initially

Answer 13

“They put it / about that the animals on the Manor Farm… were perpetually fighting among themselves and were also rapidly / starving to death” (4)

Question 14

Allusion that even intelligent individuals can be defeated through trusting wrong people in middle. Snowball read’s book of Julius Caesar

Answer 14

“Snowball, who had studied an old book of Julius Caesar’s / campaigns which he had found in the farmhouse, was in charge of / the defensive operations” (4)

Question 15

Initial truth of Battle of the Cowshed, heavily distorted later on

Answer 15

” ‘Animal Hero, First Class’, which was conferred there and then on / Snowball and Boxer” (4)

Question 16

Unintelligent animals use mindless tactics to weaken intelligent animals’ point

Answer 16

“they / were especially liable to break into “Four legs good, two legs bad” at / crucial moments in Snowball’s speeches” (5)

Question 17

Unintelligent animals need complex ideas simplified for them, allowing for manipulation of those ideas

Answer 17

“be reduced to a single maxim, namely: ‘Four legs good, two legs bad.’ “(3)

Question 18

Intelligence of animal used for good and for potential benefit of the entire farm

Answer 18

“Gradually, the plans grew into a complicated mass of / cranks and cog-wheels, covering more than half the floor, which the / other animals found completely unintelligible but very impressive” (5)

Question 19

Unintelligent animals too won over by intelligent ones, cannot form serious, long-lasting view

Answer 19

“indeed, they always found themselves in agreement with the / one who was speaking at the moment” (5)

Question 20

Intelligence used to employ violent method which works

Answer 20

“nine / enormous dogs wearing brass-studded collars came bounding into / the barn. They dashed straight for Snowball” (5)

Question 21

Intelligent animal concentrated power in the self and other intelligent followers

Answer 21

“all questions relating to the working of / the farm would be settled by a special committee of pigs, presided / over by himself” (5)

Question 22

Intelligent animal uses language to manipulate others into accepting terrible, unfair event

Answer 22

“Do not imagine, comrades, that leadership is a / pleasure! On the contrary, it is a deep and heavy responsibility” (5)”

Question 23

Unspecified animal has good idea about windmill construction

Answer 23

“Only after week of vain effort did the right / idea occur to somebody - namely, to utilise the force of gravity” (6)

Question 24

First important manipulation of history, by Squealer

Answer 24

“He assured them that the resolution against engaging / in trade and using money had never been passed, or even suggested” (6)

Question 25

Intelligence used to make nonsensical argument, but which fool animals about commandment, first of this

Answer 25

“The rule was against sheets, which are a human invention. / We have removed the sheets from the farmhouse beds, and sleep / between blankets” (6)

Question 26

Intelligence used to scapegoat Snowball first time

Answer 26

“Snowball has done this thing! In sheer / malignity, thinking to set back our plans and avenge himself for his / ignominious expulsion” (6)

Question 27

Intelligence used to maintain power, not for animals’ benefit

Answer 27

“Napoleon was well aware of / the bad results that might follow if the real facts of the food situation / were known, and he decided to make use of Mr Whymper to spread / a contrary impression” (7)

Question 28

Intelligence used to invent false Snowball conspiracy

Answer 28

“Snowball was secretly frequenting the farm by night!… Every / night, it was said, he came creeping in under the cover of darkness and / performed all kinds of mischief” (7)

Question 29

Napoleon lies about Snowball’s visits and detecting them

Answer 29

“Snowball! He has been here! I can smell / him distinctly” (7)

Question 30

Second Major falsification of history, by Squealer, about Snowball

Answer 30

“Did we not see for / ourselves how he attempted - fortunately without success - to get / us defeated and destroyed at the Battle of the Cowshed?” (7)

Question 31

Unintelligent animal can sometimes doubt what they are told, Boxer about Snowball

Answer 31

“But I believe that at / the Battle of the Cowshed he was a good comrade” (7)

Question 32

Unintelligence utterly limits Clover’s ability to think

Answer 32

“Such / were her thoughts, though she lacked the words to express them” (7)

Question 33

Intelligent animals know song could be used against them and eliminate it, saying lies

Answer 33

“But that society has now been established, Clearly this / song no longer has any purpose” (7)

Question 34

Unintelligent animals don’t doubt changed 6th commandment

Answer 34

” ‘No animal shall / kill any other animal without cause.’ Somehow or other, the last two / words had slipped out of the animals’ memory” (8)

Question 35

Intelligent animals tell lies through numbers the others cannot disprove due to lacking memory

Answer 35

“proving that the / production of every class of food stuff had increased by two hundred / per cent, three hundred per cent, or five hundred per cent” (8)

Question 36

Intelligence may be used to manipulate animals into fearing for Napoleon’s life

Answer 36

“fresh precautions for Napoleon’s / safety were taken. Four dogs guarded his bed at night, one at each / corner, and a young pig name Pinkeye was given the task of tasting / all his food before he ate it, lest it should be poisoned” (8)

Question 37

Intelligent leader can be fooled

Answer 37

“Napoleon was too clever / for him… Frederick had got the timber for nothing!” (8)

Question 38

Intelligent animals makes brutal battle seem like victory

Answer 38

“it did / seem to them after all that they had won a great victory” (8)

Question 39

Utter stupidity of animals prevents them from realising obvious in front of their eyes

Answer 39

“Squealer, temporarily stunned, was / sprawling beside it, and near at hand there lay a lantern, a paintbrush / and an overturned pot of white paint” (8)

Question 40

Alcohol commandment changed by intelligent animals

Answer 40

“No animal shall drink alcohol to excess” (8)

Question 41

The unintelligent animals want to believe life is better than in the past

Answer 41

“But doubtless it had been worse in the old days. They were / glad to believe so” (9)

Question 42

Unintelligent animals are made happy through propaganda instead of bette conditions, being fooled by pigs

Answer 42

“the thunder of the gun, the crowing of the / cockerel and the fluttering of the flag they were able to forget that / their bellies were empty” (9)

Question 43

Intelligent animals use Moses’ presumably false stories to get unintelligent animals to accept harsh life

Answer 43

“and yet they allowed him to / remain on the farm, not working, with an allowance of a gill of beer / a day” (9)

Question 44

The intelligent animals utterly exploit the stupidity of the unintelligent ones, completely heartless as to what they do in reality

Answer 44

“The / van had previously been the property of the knacker, and had been / bought by the veterinary surgeon, who had not yet painted the old name out” (9)

Question 45

The animals are unintelligent to realise basic facts, even after all of the pigs’ bad actions, near the end of the book

Answer 45

“the word went round that from somewhere or the other the pigs had / acquired enough money to buy themselves another case of whiskey” (9)

Question 46

The animals, at the book’s end, are completely and utterly fooled by the pigs

Answer 46

“No creature among them went upon two legs. No / creature called any other creature ‘Master.’ All animals were equal.” (10)

Question 47

The sheep are stupid and likely don’t even understand what they are bleating at the end of the book

Answer 47

“Four legs good, two legs better!”

Question 48

The unintelligent animals cannot even understand the meaning of equality, as they would understand that the final commandment on the barn makes no sense

Answer 48

“ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL / BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS.” (10)