Animal Farm Name: Date: Quiz

Fortnightly Quiz T2
Numbers in brackets show the number of correct answers for each question.
1) How is Animal Farm an allegory for the events of the Russian Revolution? (2)
a) The animal Rebellion and the Russian Revolution were both against farmers.
b) The animal Rebellion and the Russian Revolution were both unsuccessful.
c) Both the animal Rebellion and the Russian Revolution were led by popular and
powerful people.
d) The animal Rebellion and the Russian Revolution wanted to make life fairer for
ordinary workers.
e) After the animal Rebellion and the Russian Revolution, there were no leaders.

2) How does Orwell show that animals and humans are enemies in Chapter 4? (3)
a) The humans spread lies about what is happening on Animal Farm.
b) The animals prepare to defend the farm from an attack from the humans.
c) Napoleon leads the animals in battle against the human invasion.
d) The animals defeat the human beings in a tough battle.
e) At the end of the battle, Jones and Snowball agree to a truce to avoid more
deaths.

3) Which statements are correct? (2)

a) Napoleon wants the best for everyone on the farm. That is why he made himself
leader.
b) Snowball was a traitor. That is why Napoleon wanted to get rid of him.
c) Snowball wanted to build the windmill to help make life easier for the other animals.
d) Napoleon has trained the dogs to protect all of the animals on the farm from
attackers.
e) Napoleon has done a lot of secret planning to take control of the farm.

4) Which of these events show that the pigs are corrupt? (2)
a) The pigs sleep in the beds in the farmhouse.
b) The pigs keep the milk and apples for themselves.
c) The pigs fought in the Battle of the Cowshed.
d) Boxer and the sheep are unable to learn how to read.
e) Boxer decides he will wake up 45 minutes early each day to work on the windmill.

5) Why is the windmill so important in the novel, ‘Animal Farm’? (3)

a) The windmill gives the animals hope that their lives will be much easier in the future.
b) The windmill has been a great success and proves that Napoleon is a strong leader.
c) Orwell uses it to represent Stalin’s ambitious attempts to modernise Russia.
d) Its destruction by Snowball proves, once and for all, that Snowball is a traitor.
e) Napoleon’s lie that Snowball is responsible offers the reader yet more evidence that
Napoleon is corrupt.

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6) Why do the pigs use propaganda on Animal Farm? (2)
a) The pigs use propaganda to tell the animals interesting facts about the farm.
b) The pigs use propaganda to tell the other animals what they have been doing.
c) The pigs use propaganda to make humans think that the farm is doing well.
d) The pigs use propaganda because they are lies.
e) The pigs use propaganda to hide the fact that they are treating the other animals
badly.

7) Why was the violence from the show trials worse than in the Battle of the Cowshed? (3)
a) Because the animals are killing each other.
b) Because humans die instead of animals.
c) Because the animals had agreed on a law that they would not kill each other.
d) Because the animals have now grown to fear each other, instead of being united
against Jones.
e) Because the deaths in the show trials were accidental.

8) Which statement is correct? (1)

a) Snowball is a coward at the Battle of the Cowshed.
b) Snowball fights bravely at the Battle of the Windmill.
c) Snowball doesn’t want to build the windmill.
d) Snowball is expelled from the farm by Napoleon.
e) Snowball always gets his own way.

9) What do Napoleon and Snowball have in common? (1)

a) They are both sheep.
b) They both manipulate the other animals.
c) They are both brave.
d) They agree on way the farm should be run.
e) They both work hard on the farm.

10) Which sentences use the words ‘corrupt’ and ‘corruption’ correctly? (2)
a) Corruption is when people use power in a dishonest way in order to get an
advantage for themselves.
b) Corruption is when people fight against authority.
c) There was a corruption against the cruel king.
d) Boxer is corrupt because he always works hard.
e) The pigs are corrupt because they keep the milk and apples for themselves.