Animal Farm Themes

Question 1

power chapter 3 (no work)

Answer 1

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.

Question 2

power chapter 6 (farmhouse)

Answer 2

It was about this time that the pigs suddenly moved into the farmhouse and took up their residence there…It was absolutely necessary, he said, that the pigs, who were the brains of the farm, should have a quiet place to work in.

Question 3

power chapter 10 (contradiction)

Answer 3

The truest happiness, he said, lay in working hard and living frugally. (10.4)

Question 4

power chapter 10 (less work than other farms)

Answer 4

He believed that he was right in saying that the lower animals on Animal Farm did more work and received less food than any animals in the county

Question 5

equality chapter 1 (stupid lives)

Answer 5

“let us face it are lives are miserable, laborious and short”

Question 6

equality chapter 2 (milk gone)

Answer 6

“the milk had dissapeared”

“never mind the milk comrades”

Question 7

equality chapter 5 (sunday meeting)

Answer 7

“Sunday meeting would come to an end”

Question 8

education and learning chapter 3 (writing)

Answer 8

“the reading and writing classes were a great success”

Question 9

education and learning chapter 5 (innovations)

Answer 9

“plans for innovations and improvements”

Question 10

education and learning chapter 7 (after the killings)

Answer 10

“at last, feeling this to be the substitute for the words she was unable to find, she began to sing beasts of England”

Question 11

rise to power chapter 5 (dogs)

Answer 11

“enormous dogs wearing brass-studded collars came bounding into the barn. They dashed straight for snowball”

Question 12

rise to power chapter 7 (snowball invade)

Answer 12

“snowball he has been here i can smell him distinctly”

Question 13

rise to power chapter 10 (whip)(legs)

Answer 13

“he carried a whip in his trotter”

“all walking on their hind legs”

Question 14

language and power chapter 3 (science milk)

Answer 14

“it is proved by science”

Question 15

language and power chapter 5 (explaining why meeting gone)

Answer 15

“on the contrary it is a deep and heavy responsibility. no one believes more firmly than comrade napoleon that all animals are equal”

Question 16

language and power chapter 10 (what the pigs do)

Answer 16

“animals too ignorant to understand…things called files, reports, minutes and memoranda”

Question 17

propaganda chapter 8 (figures)

Answer 17

“read out a list of figures providing that the production of every food stuff had increased”

Question 18

propaganda chapter 7 (prof of snowball invade)

Answer 18

“it is all written down in this document…i could show you his writing if you could read”

Question 19

propaganda chapter 3 (dislike milk)

Answer 19

“many of us actually dislike milk and apples. I dislike them myself”

Question 20

7 commandments

Answer 20

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 clohes
4) no animal shall sleep in a bed
5) no animal shall drink alcohol
6) no animal shalll kill another
7) all animals are equal

Question 21

chapter 3 (irony of the harvest)

Answer 21

“And not an animal on the farm had stolen so much as a mouthful”

Question 22

boxers motto’s

Answer 22

“i will work harder”

“napoleon is always right”

Question 23

chapter 4 (Fredrick and Pilkington becoming worried)

Answer 23

“very anxious to prevent their own animals from learning too much about it”

Question 24

rise to power

napoleon chapter 5 plans

Answer 24

“urinated over the plans and walked out”

Question 25

power chapter 6

voluntary work

Answer 25

“this work was strictly voluntary but any animal who absented himself would have there rations halved”

Question 26

use of propaganda chapter 6 squeler trade

Answer 26

“are you certain that this is not something that you have dreamed?”

Question 27

equality beds

Answer 27

“no animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets”

Question 28

rise to power chapter 8

napoleon the leader

Answer 28

“our leader”

Question 29

napoleon being tricked

Answer 29

“the bank notes were forgeries”

Question 30

propaganda

squealer being caught chapter 8

Answer 30

“squealer being temporarily stunned, was sprawling beside it and near at hand there lay a lantern”

Question 31

inequality chapter 9

money for whisky

Answer 31

somewhere or other the pigs had acquired the money to buy themselves another case of whisky”

Question 32

propaganda chapter 7

filling the bins

Answer 32

be filled nearly to the brim with sand, which was then covered in grain

Question 33

rise to power chapter 7 (killing)

Answer 33

“dogs promptly tore their throats out”