Animal Farm Test Flashcards
Benjamin
-A cynical, pessimistic donkey who continually undercuts the animals’ enthusiasm with his cryptic remark, Donkeys live a long time.
- oldest animal on the farm
Boxer
-A dedicated but dimwitted horse who aids in the building of the windmill but is sold to a glue-boiler after collapsing from exhaustion
Clover
-A motherly horse who silently questions some of Napoleon’s decisions and tries to help Boxer after his collapse.
Frederick
-An enemy of Pilkington and owner of Pinchfield, another neighboring farm. Known for “driving hard bargains,” Frederick swindles Napoleon by buying timber from him with counterfeit money. He later tries to attack and seize Animal Farm but is defeated.
Jones
-The often-drunk owner of Manor Farm, later expelled from his land by his own animals. He dies in an inebriates’ home after abandoning his hopes to reclaim his farm.
Minimus
- A young pig who composes good poems and songs
Mollie
-A vain horse who prefers ribbons and sugar over ideas and rebellion. She is eventually lured off the farm with promises of a comfortable life.
Moses
- A tame raven and sometimes-pet of Jones who tells the animals stories about a paradise called Sugarcandy Mountain.
Muriel
-A white goat; one of the few animals who becomes fully literate. While Muriel doesn’t correspond to any one person, she can be seen as a representation of educated individuals who are able to interpret what’s going on, but who don’t have the charisma or the power to speak their minds.
Pilkington
-The owner of Foxwood, a neighboring and neglected farm. He eventually sells some of his land to Napoleon and, in the novel’s final scene, toasts to Napoleon’s success.
Pinkeye
-a young pig named Pinkeye is given the task of tasting all of Napoleon’s food before he eats it to make sure it is not poisoned. Pinkeye’s only role throughout the novel is testing Napoleon’s food for poison
Snowball
-A boar who becomes one of the rebellion’s most valuable leaders. After drawing complicated plans for the construction of a windmill, he is chased off of the farm forever by Napoleon’s dogs and thereafter used as a scapegoat for the animals’ troubles.
Squealer
-A porker pig who becomes Napoleon’s mouthpiece. Throughout the novel, he displays his ability to manipulate the animals’ thoughts through the use of hollow yet convincing rhetoric.
The dogs
-The nine puppies born between Jessie and Bluebell are taken by Napoleon and raised to be his guard dogs.
The sheep
-Some of the least intelligent animals on Animal Farm. They never become fully literate and can’t remember the Seven Commandments, but Snowball teaches them the maxim “Four legs good, two legs bad,” which they love and bleat all the time. They’re receptive to propaganda and follow orders without questioning anything.
