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English 9/Animal Farm Chapter 1 Study Questions Name. Date. 1. How is Mr. Jones portrayed in the first chapter? 2. The animals who gather to hear Major’s speech each mirror a single human trait. What trait is. revealed in Clover? Boxer? Benjamin? Mollie? The cat? The dogs? Whatis significant. about the pigs? 3. Why has Major called the meeting? 4. What is the political statement that emerges from Major's dream? 5. What is Major's wamings to the animals? 6% 6. What ae human habits against which Major particularly warns the animals? 7. Howdoes Major describe the equality of animals? % 8. What kind of world does Major dream of? 9. Which animals lean the song, “Beasts of England” quickly? 12D 10. How do the animals respond to the song? English 9/Animal Farm Chapter 2 Study Questions Name. Date. ‘0 that when evening came, the animals were still unfed.” 1. Who is Snowball and what is he like? 2. Who is Napoleon and-what is he like? 3. Who is Squealer and what is he like? 4. Who is Moses and what does he tell the animals? a . On what day does the Rebellion take Place? 9 How does the Rebellion start? 7. What do the animals destroy afterward? 8. What is agreed upon regarding the farmhouse? 9. What are the first two Commandments? 10. Whatis the last Commandment? 6. Describe the flag the aninials adopt and its ‘symbolism. 7. Who always disagree? 8. To what are the Seven Commandments reduced for the sake. of the stupidest animals? ‘9. Why do the pigs need the milk and apples? English 9 Animal Farm Chapter 4 ‘Study Questions Name. Date eee ET TE ee eee “No sentimentality, comradel...War is war. The only good human being is a dead one,” Answer the following questions in a complete sentence. 1. Who are the agents of ‘espionage for Animal Farm, and what is their message? x What are the neighboring farms called and who are their owners? * What do these men have to say about Animal Farm immediately after the Rebellion? 4, What do they say after time had passed, proving thei first judgments to be wishful thinking? 5. Who plans and organizes the defense against an attack, and where does he leam military strategy? 6. What is the first phase of the defense of the farm? 7. What is the strategy that follows? 8. What happens at Snowball’s squeal? 9. Describe the action in the cowshed. 10. Over what do Snowball and Boxer disagree? 11. Which animals are recognized as heroes? 12, What ceremony will honor October the twelfth and Midsummer's Day each year from now on? English 9 Animal Farm Chapter 5 Study Questions Name Date. Fee eee “He announced that from now on the Sunday-morning Meetings would ¢ome to an end...there would be.no more: debates.” Answer the following questions in a complete sentence, 4. What happens to Mollie? th lospoe forth fon se sta laced bh acadt 2. Though the pigs decide farm Policy, what limit is put on their decisions? 3. "What is Snowbalt’s strength when debating with Napoleon? 4. In what way is Napoleon more effective? 8. Which of Snowball’s schemes leads to the bitterest ‘controversy? we 6. How does Napoleon react to the carefully drawn Plans? Master Hy she 7. Who are Napoleon's “secret police”? 8. Following the banishment of Snowball, what is Napoleon's first official act? 9. How does Squealer explain the abolition of the animal vote? 10. What do the sheep love to repeat? 11. What new maxim does boxer adopt? 12. According.to Squealer, who really planned the windmill? English 9 Animal Farm Chapter 6 Study Questions Name Date ee eee eee ate “All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were happy in their work, ‘well aware that everything they did was for the benefit of themselves...and not for a pack of idle, thieving human beings,” Answer the following questions in a complete sentence. 1, How is Sunday work handled? 2. How is the harvest different from the Previous year? 3. How do the animals break up stone for the windmill? 4. What policy forbidden by Major does Napoleon announce? 5. Which animals have special reason for: concer, and why? 6. What does Squealer say about the new policy of engaging in trade with the neighboring farms? T. Who is the human-go-between? 8. What Commandment do the animals'seem to have remembered incorrectly? 9. How had they been mistaken? 10. What happens to the windmill? What causes this? English 9 Animal Farm Chapter 7 Study Questions Name, Date ee “Beasts of England’ was the song of the Rebellion...The enemy both external and intemal has been defeated... Clearly this sorig has no longer any purpose.” Answer the following questions ina complete sentence. 1. What are two ways Napoleon leads the outside world to believe that food is plentiful on the farm? 2. What leads to the rebellion of the hens? 3. How does Napoleon react to this rebellion! 4. What “evidence” indicates that Snowball is still dangerous? 5. Was Snowball a hero or not at the Battle of the Cowshed? 6. What is Boxer’s opinion of Snowball? 7. What does Squealer say:about him? 8. What influences Boxers final opinion of Snowball? 9. List the “traitors” who confess. 10. Sum up Clover’s feelings about how things have gone on Animal Farm. English 9 Animal Farm Chapter 8 Study Questions Name. Date. “What victory?’ said Boxer. ‘What victory, comrade?...we have won every inch of it back again!’ ‘Then we have won back what we had before, ‘said Boxer. ‘That is our victory’, said Squealer.” Answer the following questions in a complete Sentence. 1. What discovery do the animals make a few. days after the executions? 2. Describe the lives of the animals with regards to work and food. 3. How do the animals leam of Napoleon's orders? 4. Describe Napoleon's appearances when they do occur. 5. Name three titles used to describe Napoleon. 8. Name the official poet and one of his poems. 7. Who does Napoleon sell the timber ‘to? How do the animals react tothe’ announcement? 8. How is Napoleon paid for the timber? 9. Whats the greatest loss of the battle? 10, Who are the animal casualties? 11. What happens to Squealer one night? 12. What additional Commandment do the animals find they have remembered incorrectly? English 9/Animal Farm Chapter 9 Study Questions Name. Date, *A horse’s lungs do nof last forever.” 1. How is Boxer’s health at the beginning of the chapter? 2. Whats Boxer's expectation regarding his twelfth birthday? 3. What is Squealer's deceitful explanation of the animals’ rations? 4. What mule regarding meetings between pigs and other animals is announced? 5. What does Napoleon do to compensate for lack of food and lots of work? 6. Who do the pigs allow to return to the farm? 7. What is Boxer told to expect after he hurts himself? 8. What do Benjamin and the others realize as Boxer is being taken away? 9. How does Squealer squeich the “wicked rumour” that Boxer was betrayed? 10. What are two ways that Napoleon uses Boxer's death to his advantage? English 9 Animal Farm Chapter 10 Study Questions Name Date te jltmight be that their lives were hard and that not all of their hopes had been fulfilled; but they were coriscious that they were not as other animals, I they went hungry, it was not from feeding tyrannical human beingsy If they worked hard, at least they worked for themselves. No creatur, among, them went upon two legs. No creature called any other creature Master: All animals were equal.” Answer the following questions in a complete sentence. 1. How is the new windmill used? 2. Which animal is much the same as always? 3. What do the pigs do that shocks and frightens the animals? 4. What is the one Commandment to which the Seven Commandments have been reduced? 5. Describe how the animals act when they see the tour the pigs conduct? 6. How does Pilkington praise the pigs? 7. What promises does Napoleon make in response? 8. Howis the flag changed? 8. Describe the very last scene from the animals’ point of view. 10. Why does Orwell end the novel as he does?

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