WOD 3/Animal Farm quiz Flashcards
Overcrowded area with poor people and bad living conditions
slum
a residential area on the outskirts of a city
suburbs
let people do what they want to
laissez faire capitalism
a task that can never be finished
sisyphean
emperor of Russia
tsar
a story, poem, or picture that has a hidden meaning or metaphor to it
allegory
working class people
proletariat
describes a relationship when a person exploits/takes advantage of another thing
parasitic
the killing of a large group of people on purpose to try to get rid of that group
genocide
a genocide in the Soviet Union when a famine that created by Stalin made peasants give up their land and property
Holomodor
a victory that costs so much it doesn’t feel like a victory
Pyrrhic victory
Who is Old Major symbolic of in the Russian Revolution? (taught animalism, workers do the work, animals revolt, dies before revolution)
Karl Marx
Who is Mr. Jones symbolic of in the Russian Revolution? (irresponsible to his animals, sometimes cruel/sometimes kind)
Tsar Nicolas
Who is Napolean symbolic of in the Russian Revolution? (not a good speaker, cruel, brutal, selfish, ambition for power, kills opponents)
Stalin
Who is Squealer symbolic of in the Russian Revolution?
propaganda under Lenin
