Animal Farm Study Guide

Question 0

Old Major claims, ________ is the cause of all the animals problems.

Answer 0

Humans

Question 1

What are the original 7 commandments?

Answer 1

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 any other animal.
7) All animals are equal.

Question 2

What is the final thing that happens to the animals that causes them to rebel against Mr. Jones?

Answer 2

When Mr.Jones doesn’t feed them, and they break open the food bags to eat.

Question 3

What do the animals first decide to do with the farmhouse after Mr. Jones is overthrown?

Answer 3

A Museum

Question 4

Napoleon’s ideas on education are different from Snowball’s. What are Napoleon’s ideas about education?

Answer 4

Napoleon knew that eduction empowered animals so he decided to only educate pigs, and babies to brainwash them.

Question 5

Squealer is considered to be an excellent speaker. What characteristics does he posses that make him such a great speaker?

Answer 5

Having round cheeks and twinkling eyes. Also he learned from Old Major.

Question 6

What part does Snowball play in the Battle of the Cowsed?

Answer 6

He is like the General leading the army

Question 7

Why does Mollie run away from the farm?

Answer 7

She runs away because she likes to be pampered by the humans

Question 8

Under Napoleon’s ruling, the animals, at first, were given a choice to work on Sundays. How would not working on Sunday affect the animals?

Answer 8

There food rations would be cut in half

Question 9

Why do the dogs accompany Squealer and Napoleon?

Answer 9

Napoleon brainwashed the dogs to do as they say and protect them.

Question 10

Why does Napoleon blame Snowball for all the problems that go wrong on the farms?

Answer 10

Napoleon is trying to make the animals hate Snowball, and to answer their problems by blaming him.

Question 11

What is one of the first of the 7 original commandments broken on Animal Farm?

Answer 11

All animals are equal.

Question 12

Where is Boxer really sent when he becomes very weak and is too hurt to work anymore?

Answer 12

He is sent to a horse slaughter

Question 13

At the end, how many of the original commandments are still painted on the wall?

Answer 13

0

Question 14

At the end of the book, the animals can no longer tell the difference between pigs and __________.

Answer 14

Man

Question 15

Why don’t the other animals protest when Snowball is chased away?

Answer 15

They are scared Napoleon might make the dogs chase then too

Question 16

Why did the animals confess to Napoleon that they were traitors when they really weren’t?

Answer 16

Squealer convinced them that they thought they worked with Snowball

Question 17

What are some similarities between Napoleon and Josef Stalin?

Answer 17

1) Both acted as a leader with someone else
2) Both not as smart as other leader
3) Both makes people/animals work hard until they are too weak
4) Both Have a lot body guards
5) Both killed people/animal that did something they didn’t like